State v. Weddle’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably State v. Elliott (1977), State v. Gibby (1967)
62 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Hill v. United States · United States v. Hayman · Frank v. Mangum · Heflin v. United States · Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the interpretation placed on that section [ 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 ] by the federal courts is persuasive of the meaning of the identical rule. [Rule 93 and § 41-15-8] adopted by us. Lopez v. Singh, 53 N.M. 245 , 205 P.2d 492 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hardy · State v. Ramirez““ * * * it conclusively appears from the historic context in which § 2255 was enacted that the legislation was intended simply to provide in the sentencing court a remedy exactly commensurate with that which had previously been available by habeas corpus in the court of the district where the prisoner was confined.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.