Flint v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
464 F.2d 1084 · 1972
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), Feltch v. General Rental Co. (1981)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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. § 2107 · 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)
Relies on Heflin v. United States · Thompson v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Vine v. Beneficial Finance Co. · Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc. · Wolfsohn v. Hankin
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“begins to run from 'entry of judgment' rather than from receipt of notice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an untimely motion for reconsideration ... [is] a nullity and [will] not toll the time in which to appeal even though the court considered and denied the motion on its merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this is not a case where technical rules have immunized a miscarriage of justice.”
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.