Owsley v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
368 F.2d 1002 · 1966
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1986
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary · Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary · Owsley v. Peyton
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State is quite right that no evidential showing was made to the criminal court of any doubt as to Owsley’s mental condition. However, it appears that his attorney must have been aware that proof of the uncertainty was at hand. The lawyer’s failure to adduce it in court, we think, rendered his representation of Owsley ineffective to the point of depriving him of his Constitutional right to counsel.”
2 later decisions 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.