Peyton v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2009 · most notably Peyton v. Rowe (1968), Ganger v. Peyton (1967)
20 federal appellate · 48 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 Jones v. Cunningham · McNally v. Hill · Tilton v. Commonwealth · Martin v. Commonwealth of Virginia · Smyth v. Midgett
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elementary rule of statutory interpretation is that the construction accorded a statute by public officials charged with its administration and enforcement is entitled to be given weight by the court. The legislature is presumed to be cognizant of such construction. When it has long continued without change the legislature will be presumed to have acquiesced therein.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dexter Drake Coffin, III Doe Joe v. Edward W. Murray Director, Virginia Department of Corrections E.C. Morris, Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Lou Ann White, Manager, Classification and Records Unit, Court and Legal Services, Virginia Department of Corrections Unknown Administrative Personnel, Virginia Department of Corrections, Dexter Drake Coffin, III Doe Joe v. Edward W. Murray Director, Virginia Department of Corrections E.C. Morris, Deputy Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Lou Ann White, Manager, Classification and Records Unit, Court and Legal Services, Virginia Department of Corrections Unknown Administrative Personnel, Virginia Department of Corrections · 1 Va. App. 188 - Baskerville v. Saunders Oil Co., Inc.“Habeas corpus is a writ of inquiry granted to determine whether a person “is detained without lawful authority.” It is available only where the release of the prisoner from his immediate detention will follow as a result of an order in his favor. It is not available to secure a judicial determination of any question which, even if determined in the prisoner’s favor, could not affect the lawfulness of his immediate custody and detention. It cannot be used to modify or revise a judgment of conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The term of confinement in jail or in the penitentiary for the commission of a crime shall commence and be computed from the date of the final judgment, which, in case of an appeal, shall be that of the refusal of a writ of error or the affirmance of the judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grace 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.