Burris v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 399 · 1970
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Hodges (2009), United States v. Valencia (1980)
21 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · MacHibroda v. United States · Turner v. United States · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Gregg v. 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The allegations of a pro se habeas petition, `though vague and conclusory, are entitled to a liberal construction,'”
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.