Blair v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Our habeas corpus statutes are designed to provide relief in the form of the “discharge” (Code § 8-603) from the “person in whose custody” (Code § 8-598) a petitioner is “detained without lawful authority” (Code § 8-596). * * * * * * The petitioner is no longer detained and there is no custody from which to discharge him. To pass upon the merits of his claims would be to render an advisory opinion — a function our habeas corpus statutes neither provide for nor permit. This court, therefore, is without jurisdiction further to entertain the case, and the appeal will be dismissed. Blair v. Peyton, 210 Va. 416 , 171 S.E.2d 690, 691 (1970).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marston v. Oliver