Dodd v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
254 federal appellate · 62 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 631 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Wyeth v. Levine (2009), Jimenez v. Quarterman (2009)
254 federal appellate · 62 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
reviewedDodd v. United States (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1546 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 31 U.S.C. § 3730 (False Claims Act) · 31 U.S.C. § 3731 (False Claims Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Teague v. Lane · Ring v. Arizona · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd.
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 631 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court, if that right has been newly recognized by the Supreme Court and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the date on which the judgment of conviction becomes final; (2) the date on which the impediment to making a motion created by governmental action in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States is removed, if the movant was prevented from making a motion by such governmental action; (3) the date on which the right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court, if that right has been newly recognized by the Supreme Court and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review; or (4) the date on which the facts supporting the claim or claims presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to 'rewrite the statute that Congress has enacted.'”
7 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.