Evans v. Chavis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
129 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 372 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably Harrington v. Richter (2011), Harrington v. Richter (2011)
129 federal appellate · 3 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Michigan v. Long · Harris v. Reed · Ylst v. Nunnemaker · Carey Warden v. Saffold · 5 Cal. 4th 750 - In Re Clark
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 372 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor do we see how an unexplained delay of this magnitude [ (six months) ] could fall within the scope of the federal statutory word “pending” as interpreted in Saffold.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Gaston v. Palmer · Waldrip v. Hall“The decision that a petition has been untimely filed need not be explicitly stated; citation to a case in which a petition was dismissed as untimely filed certainly would suffice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must ... examine the delay ... and determine what the state courts would have held in respect to timeliness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.