Conley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
323 F.3d 7 · 2003
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Norton v. Spencer (2003), Ellsworth v. Warden, New Hampshire State Prison (2003)
40 federal appellate · 11 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 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · Kyles v. Whitley · Liteky et al 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“petition the sentencing court to vacate, set aside or correct the sentence on the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sometimes known as the mandate rule - far more stringently precludes a lower court from contravening the rulings of a higher court made at an earlier stage of the same controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was explicitly directed at the recall of a mandate in a habeas proceeding in order to revisit the merits of an earlier decision denying habeas corpus relief to a state prisoner,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.