Fortunado v. Kenneth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Christopher Artuz Superintendent Green Haven Correctional Facility v. Tony Bruce Bennett · Calderon v. United States District Court for the Central District of California · Calderon v. United States District Court · James v. West · Lovasz v. Vaughn
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that if a state’s rule governing the timely commencement of state post-conviction relief petitions contains exceptions that require a state court to examine the merits of a petition before it is dismissed, the petition, even if untimely, should be regarded as “properly filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ramsey v. Yearwood“was properly filed [because he] asserted that it was based on newly discovered evidence,”
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.