Kholi v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.3d 147 · 2009
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Appellate journey
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Duncan v. Walker · William O'sullivan v. Darren Boerckel · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Michael Wayne Williams v. John Taylor Warden · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Taking into account this quotidian understanding, it seems self-evident that a motion for a sentence reduction in the nature of a plea for discretionary leniency is a motion that seeks post-conviction 'review' of a sentence and, thus, is a motion that falls squarely within the plain meaning of section 2244(d)(2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blue v. Medeiros“The mere fact that a court cites a case approvingly for one point does not imply the court's wholesale acceptance of each and every proposition for which the cited case stands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state post-conviction motion for a sentence reduction, in the nature of a plea for discretionary leniency, comes within the [AEDPA] statutory sweep.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blue v. Medeiros
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.