Redd v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 1 state decisions

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

1. “* * * (I)t is clear that the length of time petitioner’s attorney has to prepare for trial is not of itself sufficient to show petitioner was inadequately represented. To establish that a person has been inadequately represented he must show that his attorney made a farce of the trial. As stated in Root v. Cunningham, 344 F. 2d 1, 3 (4th Cir. 1965), “Ordinarily, one is deprived of effective assistance of counsel only in those extreme instances where the representation is so transparently inadequate as to make a farce of the trial”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Close v. United States

2. ““It is well settled that the petitioner in a habeas corpus proceeding has the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence the alleged violations of his constitutional rights. Post v. Boles, 332 F.2d 738 (4th Cir. 1964); Stewart v. Smyth, 288 F.2d 362 (4th Cir. 1961); United States ex rel. Jackson v. Brady, 133 F.2d 476 (4th Cir. 1943).” Redd v. Peyton, 270 F.Supp. 757, 759 (W.D.Va.1967).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 278 F. Supp. 904 - Wade v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary