Lugo v. Keane’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 29 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2022
12 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Sanders v. United States · McCleskey v. Zant · Mmahat v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. · Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o principle is more fundamental to our system of judicial administration than that a person is entitled to notice before adverse judicial action is taken against him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court may not properly dismiss a habeas petition on the ground of abuse of the writ without providing the petitioner with notice of the proposed dismissal and an opportunity to be heard in opposition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McLamb v. Keane · Victor Acosta“provides for a sua sponte dismissal of a habeas petition on its merits, to be followed by notice,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Victor Acosta
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.