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← 30 F. App'x 607 - Clay v. United States

30 F. App'x 607 - Clay v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
May 2004
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Boufford v. Moore · Pagan v. United States · Kapral v. United States · Venters v. City of Delphi · Lowe v. Champion

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.

  1. “Bowing to stare decisis, " the court expressed "reluctan[ce] to overrule [its own] recently-reaffirmed precedent without guidance from the Supreme Court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “invitation to reconsider our holding in Gendron, " although it acknowledged that Gendron 's "construction of section 2255 represents the minority view.”
    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.