Brooks v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Slayton v. Parrigan (1974), Correll v. Thompson (1995)
3 federal appellate · 65 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 Butts v. Commonwealth · Gann v. Meek · Flanary v. Commonwealth · Kibler v. Commonwealth · The People v. Utterback
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The second indictment was returned before the expiration of [the speedy trial statute] from the date of the first indictment. The Commonwealth was not barred from obtaining another indictment which properly charged the offense of robbery. When an original indictment is supplanted by a second indictment, the terms contemplated by the statute are to be counted from the time of the second indictment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The function of a writ of habeas corpus is to inquire into jurisdictional defects amounting to want of legal authority for the detention of a person on whose behalf it is asked. The court in which a writ is sought examines only the power and authority of the court to act, not the correctness of its conclusions, and the petition for a writ may not be used as a substitute for appeal or writ of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The protection granted an accused under Code § 19.1-191 1 is not self-operative. “It may be claimed, or it may be waived.” Failure to invoke the provisions of the statute until after final judgment is a waiver of the protection afforded thereunder.”
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.