Arthur v. King’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.3d 1335 · 2007
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Jacobs v. Tempur-Pedic International, Inc. (2010), Arthur v. Thomas (2012)
12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Koon v. United States · Calderon v. Thompson · Nelson v. Campbell Commissioner Alabama Department of Corrections et al. · Hill v. McDonough · Drago v. Jenne
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] Rule 59 motion cannot be used 'to relit[i]gate old matters, raise argument or present evidence that could have been raised prior to the entry of judgment.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The strong interest of the State and the victims'[ ] families is in the timely enforcement of a sentence, which acquires an added moral dimension once post-trial proceedings finalize.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Desantis
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.