Moon v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Pointer v. Texas · Hamilton v. Alabama · White v. State of Maryland · E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Maloney
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a failure to observe its provisions would not necessarily mean that the petitioner's rights under the Constitution of the United States had been violated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cradle v. Peyton
How this case has been treated — in progress
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