Rodriguez v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.3d 694 · 1997
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2024
8 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Murray v. Carrier · Schlup v. Delo · Sanders v. United States · McCleskey v. Zant · Henderson v. Kibbe
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a claim of ‘actual innocence’ as that term is used ... in habeas jurisprudence generally”); Rodriguez v. Johnson, 104 F.3d 694, 697 (5th Cir.1997) (“The term ‘actual innocence’ means factual, as opposed to legal, innocence — ‘legal’ innocence, of course, would arise whenever a constitutional violation by itself requires reversal, whereas ‘actual’ innocence ... means that the person did not commit the crime.”) (citations omitted). .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex parte Fournier“extraordinary instances when a constitutional violation probably has caused the conviction of one innocent of the crime”
1 later decision 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.