Hastings v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Prisoners adjudged guilty of crime should understand that 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 does not give them the right to try over again the cases in which they have been adjudged guilty. Questions as to the sufficiency of the evidence or involving errors either of law or of fact must be raised by timely appeal from the sentence if the petitioner desires to raise them. Only where th'e sentence is void or otherwise subject to collateral attack may the attack be made by motion under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 , which was enacted to take the place of habeas corpus in such cases and was intended to confer no broader right of attack than might have been made in its absence by habeas corpus.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Jonikas

2. ““There was no appeal from the judgment of conviction and what appellants seek in this § 2255 proceeding is a retrial of their case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Jonikas