Trapp v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.3d 53 · 2007
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Barreto-Barreto v. United States (2008), Downs v. McNeil (2008)
12 federal appellate · 18 district ·
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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Woodson v. North Carolina · Gardner v. Florida · Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford · Clay 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A 1-year period of limitation shall apply to an application for a writ of habeas corpus by a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court. The. limitation period shall run from the latest of— . (A) the date on which the judgment became final by the conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for seeking such review; (B) the date on which the impediment to filing an application created by State action in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States is removed, if the applicant was prevented from filing by such State action; (C) the date on which the constitutional right asserted was' initially recognized by the Supreme Court, if the right has been newly recognized by the Supreme Court and made retroactively'applicable to cases on collateral review; or (D) the date on which the factual predicate of the claim or claims presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence. (2) The time during which a properly filed application for State post-conviction or other collateral review with respect to the pertinent judgment or claim is pending shall not be counted toward any period of limitation under this subsection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. [t]he petitioner’s own diligence in pursuing habeas relief[;] 2. [wjhether some extraordinary circumstance prevented the petitioner from making a timely filing[;] 3. [t]he petitioner’s diligence in the pursuit of other post-conviction remedies and the process already afforded in the state system[;] 4. [a]ny prejudice to the prosecution that would result from tolling and possible retrial[;] 5. [t]he fact that equitable tolling is not available in cases of dubious merit[; and] 6. [w]hether or not the case is capital case and whether or not the petitioner has been sentenced to death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the Supreme Court denied [petitioner's] petition for certiorari..., [petitioner's] conviction became final, and the AEDPA period of limitations began to run.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quintero v. Tilton
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.