Rowe v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
383 F.2d 709 · 1967
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000 · most notably Agostini v. Felton Chancellor Board of Education of the City of New York (1997), Peyton v. Rowe (1968)
38 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Brown v. Allen · Jones v. Cunningham · United States v. Hayman · Ex parte Lange
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the writ as it is known today, therefore, is almost entirely the product of judicial innovation and adaptation to fit it to new situations and newly felt needs, judges should not hesitate to take a further step to adapt it to meet yet another need which is present, urgent, and recognized *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Perini
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.