Fernandez v. Sternes’s Empirical Analysis
227 F.3d 977 · 2000
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Carey Warden v. Saffold (2002), Ronnie Lee Gibson v. Ken Klinger - (2000)
24 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Harris v. Reed · Jesus Nino v. George Galaza Attorney General of the State of California · Tony Bruce Bennett v. Christopher Artuz, Superintendent · Swartz v. Meyers · Gendron 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after the time for further review has expired without further action to continue the litigation . . . would sap the federal statute of limitations of much of its effect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is sensible to say that a petition continues to be 'pending' during the period between one court's decision and a timely request for further review by a higher court (provided that such a request is filed).”
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.