Burns v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.3d 109 · 1998
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 39 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 251 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker (2001), Duncan v. Walker (2001)
94 federal appellate · 39 district · 12 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Lindh v. Murphy · Houston v. Lack · Lindh v. Murphy · McGore v. Wrigglesworth
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 251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The time during which a properly filed application for State post-conviction or other collateral review with respect to the pertinent judgment or claim is pending shall not be counted toward any period of limitation under this subsection.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a pro se prisoner's habeas petition is deemed filed at the moment he delivers it to prison officials for mailing to the district court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“habeas petitions filed on or before April 23, 1997, may not be dismissed for failure to comply with S 2244(d)(1)'s time limit.”
4 later decisions 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.