Stephenson v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 26 · 1994
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Boyd v. Biggers (1994), Robinson v. Jones (1998)
35 federal appellate · 4 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Heck v. Humphrey · Rodriguez v. Holmes · Spina v. Aaron
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reversed on direct appeal, expunged by executive order, declared invalid by a state tribunal authorized to make such determination, or called into question by a federal court's issuance of a writ of habeas corpus.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Heck dictates that a cause of action seeking damages under Sec. 1983 for an unconstitutional conviction or sentence does not accrue until the conviction or sentence has been invalidated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tavarez v. Reno“cannot establish the elements of a Bivens action until his conviction has been declared invalid or otherwise impugned....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pandey v. Freedman
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.