Lee v. Smyth’s Empirical Analysis
262 F.2d 53 · 1958
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 1962
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Brown v. Allen · Gryger v. Burke · Bute v. People of State of Illinois · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that a federal district court need not consider a state prisoner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus where the highest state court, presented with the same facts, has already determined the legality of the detention. Brown v. Allen, 1953, 344 U.S. 443, 465 , 73 S.Ct. 397 , 97 L.Ed. 469 , applied by this court in Hunter v. Smyth, 1957, 249 F.2d 651 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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