Fay v. Noia’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3,986 federal appellate · 732 district · 1,305 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9,663 later decisions (340 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966)
3,986 federal appellate · 732 district · 1,305 state decisions — followed in 49 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States of America Ex Rel. Charles Noia, Relator-Appellant v. Edwin M. Fay, as Warden of Greenhaven Prison, State of New York (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Brown v. Allen
Cited together with Townsend v. Sain · Johnson v. Zerbst · Wainwright v. Sykes · Henry v. State of Mississippi · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera
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 9,663 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.”
176 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) An application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State, or that there is either an absence of available State corrective process or the existence of circumstances rendering such process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner. "(c) An applicant shall not be deemed to have exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State, within the meaning of this section, if he has the right under the law of the State to raise, by any available procedure, the question presented.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“its history is inextricably intertwined with the growth of fundamental rights of personal liberty.”
37 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.