Archer v. Heath’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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

1. ““Where a judgment of a United States court is attacked directly by appeal, the judgment will be reversed, unless the jurisdictional facts appear some place in the record; but on a collateral attack, such as by habeas corpus, the judgment is presumptively valid, unless it appears affirmatively from the record that the court was without jurisdiction. This distinction has been repeatedly recognized by the Supreme Court, and it has been universally held that a petitioner is not entitled to a discharge on habeas corpus simply because the record of conviction fails to show affirmatively the jurisdiction of the court in which the conviction was had. Ex parte Cuddy, 131 U.S. 280 , 9 S.Ct. 703 , 33 L.Ed. 154 ; United States v. Pridgeon, 153 U.S. 48 , 14 S.Ct. 746 , 38 L.Ed. 631 ; Knewel v. Egan, 268 U.S. 442 , 45 S.Ct. 522 , 69 L.Ed. 1036 .” (Page 933.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bowen v. Johnson