Pliler Warden v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
123 federal appellate · 37 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 373 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford (2005), Day v. McDonough (2006)
123 federal appellate · 37 district · 3 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
reviewedCalderon v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
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 Rose v. Lundy · McKaskle v. Wiggins · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker · Castro v. United States · Martinez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District
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 373 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]istrict judges have no obligation to act as counsel or paralegal to pro se litigants,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“would force upon district judges the potentially burdensome, time-consuming, and fact-intensive task of making a case-specific investigation and calculation of whether the AEDPA limitations period has already run or will have run by the time the petitioner returns to federal court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]equiring district courts to advise a pro se litigant in such a manner would undermine district judges' role as impartial decision-makers,”
2 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.