In Re: Shane McClaine Cain, Movant’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Magwood v. Patterson (2010), Rivers v. Lumpkin (2024)
1 district ·
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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Felker v. Turpin · Reeves v. Little · Thomas v. Superintendent/Woodbourne Corr. Facility
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prisoner’s application is not second or successive simply because it follows an earlier federal petition. Instead, section 2244 — one of the gatekeeping provisions of the [Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act] — was enacted primarily to preclude prisoners from repeatedly attacking the validity of their convictions and sentences. Thus, a later petition is successive when it: 1) raises a claim challenging the petitioner’s conviction or sentence that was or could have been raised in an earlier petition; or 2) otherwise constitutes an abuse of the writ.”
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.