Pasley v. Overholser’s Empirical Analysis
282 F.2d 494 · 1960
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1982 · most notably Honeycutt v. Ward (1979), Richard Bellew v. J. B. Gunn (1976)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sanders v. Allen · United States v. Sturm · Powers v. Hunter · Hodges v. United States · A. E. Staley Mfg. Co. v. Kipton Elevator Ass'n
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While lapse of time alone may not warrant denial of the issuance of the writ, it is certainly true that one who attacks the validity of his plea of guilty so long after the proceedings in the (Trial) Court must carry a heavy burden if he is to overcome the regularity of his conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.