Carey Warden v. Saffold’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
449 federal appellate · 65 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,214 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford (2005), Lawrence v. Florida (2007)
449 federal appellate · 65 district · 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSaffold v. Newland (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on William O'sullivan v. Darren Boerckel · Michael Wayne Williams v. John Taylor Warden · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker · Christopher Artuz Superintendent Green Haven Correctional Facility v. Tony Bruce Bennett
Cited together with Christopher Artuz Superintendent Green Haven Correctional Facility v. Tony Bruce Bennett · Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford · Evans v. Chavis · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson
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 1,214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consistent with that word's ordinary meaning.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Welch v. Carey · Wade v. Battle“If the California Supreme Court had clearly ruled that Saffold's 4-½-month delay was 'unreasonable,' that would be the end of the matter[.]”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“AEDPA's limitations period — with its accompanying tolling provision ... promotes the exhaustion of state remedies while respecting the interest in the finality of state court judgments.”
9 later decisions 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.