Johnson v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) A 1-year period of limitation shall apply to an application for a writ of. habeas corpus by a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court. The limitation period shall run from the latest of — • (A) the date on which the judgment became final by the conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for seeking such review; (2) The time during which a properly filed application for State post-conviction or other collateral review with respect to the pertinent judgment or claim is pending shall not be counted toward any period of limitation under this subsection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. Shannon

2. “the petitioner has in some extraordinary way been prevented from asserting his or her rights. The petitioner must show that he or she exercised reasonable diligence in investigating and bringing the claims.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schlueter III v. Varner

3. “[i]n non-capital cases, attorney error, miscalculation, inadequate research, or other mistakes have not been found to rise to the `extraordinary' circumstances required for equitable tolling.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lacava v. Kyler