Day v. McDonough’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
214 federal appellate · 35 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 610 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Bowles v. Russell (2007), Jones v. Bock (2007)
214 federal appellate · 35 district · 29 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
reviewedDay v. Crosby (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Slack v. McDaniel · United States v. Olano · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Teague v. Lane
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 610 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute of limitations defense * * * is not 'jurisdictional'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Catlow v. Comm'r · Barnes v. Comm'r“significantly prejudiced by the delayed focus on the limitation issue”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Zavaras · Paez v. Sec'y“courts are under no obligation to raise the time bar sua sponte .”
6 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.