Felder v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
204 F.3d 168 · 2000
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Souter v. Jones (2005), United States of America v. Gary Allen Patterson (2000)
40 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Lonchar v. Thomas · Dale Oney v. Darrell Ratliff Jungle Rags Inc Walt Disney Company Walt Disney Consumer Products Walt Disney World Company the Disney Store Inc · Moscariello v. United States · Miller v. Marr
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rare and exceptional circumstances where it is necessary to preserve a plaintiff's claims when strict application of the statute of limitations would be inequitable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Equitable tolling is appropriate when an extraordinary factor beyond the plaintiff's control prevents his filing on time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the time during which a properly filed application for State post-conviction or other collateral review with respect to the pertinent judgment or claim is pending shall not be counted toward any period of limitation under this subsection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.