Williams v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
372 F.2d 216 · 1967
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1982 · most notably Peyton v. Rowe (1968), Ganger v. Peyton (1967)
21 federal appellate ·
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 · Jones v. Cunningham · McNally v. Hill · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Stevens v. Myers · Peyton v. French
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““available to a prisoner incarcerated under a sentence, the validity of which he did not question, to litigate the validity of other convictions which deferred his eligibility for consideration for parole on the unquestioned sentence. (Martin v. Commonwealth, 349 F.2d 781 (4 Cir. 1965). We now conclude that the same principle is applicable to one who is already eligible for consideration for parole on a sentence which he does not question, but whose chances for parole are manifestly restricted by the fact of other convictions and unserved sentences thereon, allegedly invalid.” Williams v. Peyton, 372 F.2d 216, 217 (4 Cir. 1967).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is, of course, true that the parole board may conclude that Williams should not be paroled, even if his 1956 convictions are set aside and he is not retried, but we must conclude that the number of convictions and aggregate sentences are factors which every parole board properly considers in regard to any prisoner seeking parole * * *. We conclude, therefore, as we did in Martin, that the presence of other convictions may be a real, effective basis of appellant’s continuing detention in a penal institution instead of his being at large, relatively free, though under parole supervision * * *. Appellant is, we conclude, “in custody” within the meaning of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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