Allen v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.3d 1150 · 2005
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2021
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Maleng v. Cook · Bonin v. Calderon · Pliler Warden v. Ford · Roberts v. Corrothers · Yourish v. California Amplifier
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a substantial question exists regarding the mental competence of a party proceeding pro se, the proper procedure is for the district court to conduct a hearing to determine competence, so a guardian ad litem can be appointed, if necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bravo v. Aker“construe pro se habeas filings liberally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roy v. Lampert
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.