Ex parte Counort’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““One convicted in a state court for an alleged violation of the criminal statutes of the state, and who contends' that he is held in violation of the Constitution of the United States, must ordinarily first take his case to the highest court of the state, in which the judgment could be reviewed, and thence bring it, if unsuccessful t£ere, to this court by writ of error; that only in certain exceptional cases, of which the present is not one, will a Circuit Court of the United States, or this court upon appeal from a Circuit Court, intervene by writ of habeas corpus in advance of the final action by the highest court of the state.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Bass