Sonnier v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.3d 941 · 1998
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Kelvin Morris No As-1924 v. Martin Horn Commissioner Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (1999), Turner v. Johnson (1999)
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
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Houston v. Lack · Harcon Barge Co. v. D & G Boat Rentals, Inc. · Carson v. Johnson · Flanagan v. Johnson
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 lack of a ruling on a COA in the district court causes this court to be without jurisdiction to consider the appeal.” (emphasis added));”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The rule contemplates that the district court will make the first judgment whether a COA should issue and on which issues, and that the circuit court will be informed by the district court’s determination in its own decisionmaking. [W]e are cognizant of the district court’s superior familiarity with this habeas petition. Its considerable experience with this case should allow it accurately to determine which issues satisfy the COA requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cardenas v. Thaler“for the district court to revisit the issue of time-bar, including the Suspension Clause issue if the court again finds the application to be time-barred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Johnson
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.