In Re Byrnes’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Parker v. Ellis (1960), In Re Dixon (1953)
5 federal appellate · 76 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · 19 Cal. 2d 488 - In Re Bell · Boykin v. Huff · 1 Cal. 2d 364 - People v. Sonoqui · In Re Johannes
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that a writ of habeas corpus ordinarily may not be employed as a substitute for an appeal [citation], yet the scope of inquiry in such proceedings has been broadened rather than narrowed [citation], and the writ may be used to present questions of law that cannot otherwise be reviewed or are so important as to justify an extraordinary remedy [citation].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“By the timely notices of appeal from the judgments of conviction under which Byrnes is now in custody, the District Court of Appeal acquired jurisdiction over the two actions, and ... lack of a record on appeal does not affect its jurisdiction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Gonsalves“to hear any motion or motions made within 90 days after the date of the filing of this opinion for the purpose of securing relief from default in the presentation of the record upon appeal in either or both of the actions referred to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Gonsalves
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.