Montgomery v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · Robert J. Grundler and Joseph L. Jelly v. State of North Carolina · E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Maloney · Webb v. Commonwealth · Root v. Cunningham
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * (O)rdinarily, 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 passagee.g. Mapson v. Cox
How this case has been treated — in progress
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