Stokes v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1999 · most notably Coleman v. Thompson (1991), William C. Shiflett v. Commonwealth of Virginia, and C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, John Henry Love v. Commonwealth of Virginia, Orrillion D. James v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary (1971)
9 federal appellate · 12 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 Cabaniss v. Cunningham · Peyton v. Fields · Thacker v. Peyton · Yates v. Peyton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f these procedures cannot be complied with, then the defendant, Stokes, shall be granted a new trial, or be released from further custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stokes v. Peyton“furnish him with a free transcript or narrative of the evidence and other necessary papers for an appeal * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stokes 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.