Felker v. Turpin’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.3d 657 · 1996
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Winestock (2003), Mincey v. Head (2000)
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Kyles v. Whitley · Herrera v. Collins · Jones v. Howard · Felker v. Turpin
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the successive petition restrictions contained in the amendments to [28 U.S.C.] § 2244(b) apply to Rule 60(b) proceedings, even where those proceedings seek to amend a judgment that became final before the effective date of the amendments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 60(b) cannot be used to circumvent restraints on successive habeas petitions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lopez v. Douglas · Rodwell v. Pepe“'[C]ounsel for Petitioner could have sought this information [in the prosecutor's possession] prior to the first state habeas petition being filed in 1984,' because nothing prevented him from filing the Open Records Act lawsuit twelve years ago”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mincey v. Head
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.