Lawrence v. Florida’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.3d 1221 · 2005
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably Lawrence v. Florida (2007), Holland v. Florida (2010)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Slack v. McDaniel · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · McCleskey v. Zant · Marks v. United States · Hopkins v. Reeves
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.
“when the State’s conduct prevents the petitioner from timely filing”); Curtiss v. Mt. Pleasant Corr. Facility, 338 F.3d 851 , 855 (8th Cir.2003) (equitable tolling warranted when”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Campbell · Robert Campbell“Making the most of a novel argument, Lawrence posits that the State’s provision to him of an incompetent attorney justifies the imposition of equitable tolling. This is not an extraordinary circumstance that warrants the application of equitable tolling.”
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.