Calderon v. United States District Court for the Central District of California’s Empirical Analysis
163 F.3d 530 · 1998
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 335 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker (2001), Duncan v. Walker (2001)
110 federal appellate · 12 district · 4 state decisions
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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Lindh v. Murphy · Brown v. Allen · Schlup v. Delo · Kerr v. United States Dist. Court for Northern Dist. of Cal.
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 335 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if extraordinary circumstances beyond a prisoner's control make it impossible to file a petition on time.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a condition that is, obviously, an extraordinary circumstance beyond the prisoner's control”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“must demonstrate some burden . . . other than the mere cost and delay that are the regrettable, yet normal, features of our imperfect legal system.”
3 later decisions 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.