Bleitner v. Welborn’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 652 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Lewis v. Sternes (2004), Lemons v. D O'sullivan (1995)
13 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. § 2072 · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Philips Medical Systems International B.V. v. Bruetman · Allen v. Duckworth · United States ex rel. Mattox v. Scott · Thrameah Aziz v. E.S. Leferve and Robert Abrams
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Federal Rule of Civil Procedure] 6(b)(2) allows a district judge (with inapplicable exceptions) to grant an untimely motion to extend a deadline, provided that the failure to file a timely motion was due to excusable neglect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“at some point delay in the disposition of a petition for habeas corpus caused by the government's willfully refusing to file a response might infringe the petitioner's right to due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“loosened up the deadline for responding.”
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.