Simpson v. Teets’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate ·

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

1. “The feeling, supported by the statistics, that the chances are 740 to 1 that such an application is without merit, the knowledge that it may even be a contrived invention, should not deter any judge from shouldering this burden of combing the facts in every such case upon the chance that it may be one of those 13/100ths of 1 per cent that may have some merit. Granting that these applications, all taken together, present a task for the courts that is hard to bear, yet it is a proud tradition of our system that every man, no matter who he may be, claiming denial of due process is entitled to have that claim examined. Making this examination, doing this combing at the earliest possible stage in the litigation may well help ameliorate this serious condition in the federal courts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pike v. Dickson

2. ““On writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and was duly submitted. “On consideration whereof, It is ordered and adjudged by this Court that the judgment of the said United States Court of Appeals, in this cause, be, and the same is hereby, vacated; and that this cause be, and the same is hereby, remanded to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California with directions to grant a hearing on the allegations of the petition for writ of habeas corpus unless the court finds that petitioner’s state remedies have not been exhausted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Simpson v. Teets

3. “Thomas' application being drawn by an inexperienced layman is to be construed to give its allegations effect, though inartificially drawn. Darr v. Burford, 339 U.S. 200 , 203, 70 S.Ct. 587, 94 L.Ed. 761; Price v. Johnston, 334 U.S. 266 , 292, 68 S.Ct. 1049, 92 L.Ed. 1356.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pike v. Dickson