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Jay R. Kurth v. John E. Bennett, Warden, Iowa State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis

274 F.2d 409 · 1960

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
September 1967
most recently cited

4 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “nothing more legally than an effort to obtain a retrial by another tribunal of a question on which he has had his day in court and on which there has been an adjudication against him”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “predicated on the same basis and elements of consideration as were necessarily involved in the jury's disposition of that question on his trial”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “no elements of evidence with which to establish his claim of falsity than those which were before the state court on his trial”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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