Evans v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 491 · 1964
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 1991 · most notably Allen v. Perini (1970), United States ex rel. Sero v. Preiser (1974)
27 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Skinner v. State of Oklahoma Williamson · Ex Parte Hawk No - on Rule to Show Cause and Return · Robert J. Grundler and Joseph L. Jelly v. State of North Carolina · Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since 1962 there has been no substantial change in the composition of Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals, and there is no suggestion of any possible reason to suppose that the Court might reconsider its considered judgment in the recent Sims case. 335 F.2d at 493. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the existence of circumstances rendering such [State] process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.