28 U.S.C. § 2256
Section 2256 · Omitted]
This is the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
Applied in 76 court decisions — leading case Rivera v. United States (1980)
Most recently applied in United States v. Gregory Colley (March 2018)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.