Ex Parte Ramzy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 state decisions

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A procedure by habeas corpus to be relieved of imprisonment for contempt can in no legal sense be regarded as a suit or controversy between private parties. In such a proceeding the petition for a writ of habeas corpus is for the relief of the prisoner and the prisoner only”). 14 . See Art. 11.07 § 3(b)(”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Rieck

2. ““ * * * Whether a person can or cannot perform as ordered by a court becomes a question of law in those instances only when from an examination of the evidence, reasonable minds cannot differ as to the conclusion, either that he can or cannot perform as ordered.” (424 S.W.2d at p. 227).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Williams

3. “[t]he purpose of the writ of habeas corpus ... is not to determine the guilt or innocence of a prisoner; the primary, if not the only, object of the writ is to determine the legality of the restraint under which a person is held”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex Parte Kerr