Nachtigall v. Class’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 1076 · 1995
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Edgington v. Missouri Department of Corrections (1995), Hawkins v. Evans (1995)
15 federal appellate · 13 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. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Schlup v. Delo · Sanders v. United States · Godinez v. Moran
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.
“[A] very narrow equitable exception exists for a petitioner who can make a showing, based on new evidence, that ‘a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bannister v. Delo“'suffering from a mental disease, disorder, or defect that may substantially affect his capacity to appreciate his position and make a rational choice with respect to continuing or abandoning further litigation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To show cause in the context of successive or abusive claims, petitioner must show that the claims are 'based on facts or legal theories of which he had no knowledge when prosecuting his prior habeas petition.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bannister v. Delo
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.