Nolan v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 6 Va. App. 38 - Fitzgerald v. Bass (1988), Green v. Young (2002)
29 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 Hawk v. Olson · Lipsett Steel Products, Inc. v. Mosley · Smyth v. Morrison · Bates v. Meadows · Mathews v. Commonwealth
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne attacking a judgment of conviction in a habeas corpus proceeding has the burden of proving by a preponderance of evidence the allegations contained in [the] petition.”
2 later decisions 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.