Harmon v. Smyth’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1969
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hudson v. Youell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The writ (of habeas corpus) does not lie where the judgment is merely voidable by reason of errors of law or of fact, omissions, or other irregularities, no matter how numerous or flagrant they may be, at least where the law provides a remedy by appeal or writ of error to obtain their correction. Harmon v. Smyth, 183 Va. 414 , 32 S.E. 2d 665, 666, 667 (1945).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Asbury v. Peyton
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.