Smith v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.3d 262 · 2006
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2025
5 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Harris v. Johnson · White v. Johnson · Hill v. Crosby · Neville v. Johnson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he mere fact that an inmate states a cognizable § 1983 claim does not warrant the entry of a stay as a matter of right ... [a] court may consider the last-minute nature of an application to stay execution in deciding whether to grant equitable relief.” We do not decide whether Harris properly states a claim under § 1988, because even if he does, he is not entitled to the equitable relief he seeks. Harris has been on death row for eighteen,, years, yet has chosen only this moment, with his execution imminent, to challenge a procedure for lethal injection that the state has used for an even longer period of time .... Harris cannot excuse his delaying until the eleventh hour on the ground that he was unaware of the state’s intention to execute him by injecting the three chemicals he now challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berry v. Epps“`even if he does, he is not entitled to the equitable relief he seeks' due to his dilatory filing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nooner v. Norris“`may be filed any time after the plaintiff's conviction has become final on direct review'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nooner v. Norris
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.