Bell v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 18 · 1994
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
August 1997
most recently cited
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Guzman-Rivera v. Rivera-Cruz
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the [government's statute of limitations] argument were clearly meritorious, we could end the case right here. It is not; the applicability of the statute of limitations to this case presents a difficult question that we shall not have to decide if it turns out, as in all likelihood it will, that the suit is barred by the new principle of Heck v. Humphrey.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bell v. Hoskins
How this case has been treated — in progress
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