Harris v. Cotton’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.3d 578 · 2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Calderon v. Thompson · Coady v. Vaughn · Jimmy Walker v. J.T. O'brien, and Joseph W. Finfrock v. Craig A. Hanks · Jerry Montgomery v. Rondle Anderson, Warden, Indiana State Prison · Valona 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prisoners are not allowed to avoid the restrictions that Congress has placed on collateral attacks on their convictions or other custody-creating or -enhancing punishments by styling their collateral attacks as motions for reconsideration under Rule 60(b). There must be no circumvention of those restrictions by classifying a collateral attack as a Rule 60(b) motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dunlap v. Litscher
How this case has been treated — in progress
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