Smith v. Bowersox’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 345 · 1998
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Clay v. United States (2003), Nichols v. Bowersox (1999)
21 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Lindh v. Murphy · Morissette v. United States · Caspari Superintendent Missouri Eastern Correctional Center et al Bohlen · Evans v. United States
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he running of the statute of limitations imposed by § 2244(d)(1)(A) is triggered by either (i) the conclusion of all direct criminal appeals in the state system, followed by either the completion or denial of certiorari proceedings before the United States Supreme Court; or (ii) if certiorari was not sought, then by the conclusion of all direct criminal appeals in the state system followed by the expiration of the time allotted for filing a petition for the writ.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nichols v. Bowersox · Snow v. Ault“the date on which the judgment became final by the conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for seeking such review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nichols v. Bowersox · Snow v. Ault“When Congress elects to use terminology that has become commonplace in court decisions in a particular field of law, the rules of statutory construction call for us to define the statute's terms in harmony with that accepted judicial meaning.”
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.