2 Va. App. 314 - Peterson v. Bass’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 18 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Peterson has taken all steps necessary to entitle him to have his petition for appeal considered on its merits by the Supreme Court. He filed a timely notice of appeal to the Supreme Court and subsequently filed a timely petition for appeal [from his habeas petition attacking his capital conviction].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland J S III O'Dell III

2. “it would be inconsistent with the legislative design ... to conclude that [the Court of Appeals] lack[ed] jurisdiction to hear direct appeals [in capital cases], but that[it] possess[ed] ... jurisdiction [over habeas challenges to capital convictions].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland J S III O'Dell III