Pettus v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), 1 Va. App. 435 - Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc. v. Reeves (1986)
3 federal appellate · 14 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 Mason v. Commonwealth · Pierce v. Commonwealth · Butts v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Cunningham v. Hayes
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts that no exception was taken to the judgment of conviction, no appeal from the judgment, or writ of error was applied for by his court-appointed counsel, * * * and that Pettus was not informed of his right to petition for an appeal or writ of error, speak more eloquently than words as to lack of effective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is well settled that such a contention must be asserted in a direct appeal from, or writ of error to, the original judgment and cannot be made by a collateral attack on that judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.