Simms v. Acevedo’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.3d 774 · 2010
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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)
Relies on Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford · Christopher Artuz Superintendent Green Haven Correctional Facility v. Tony Bruce Bennett · Day v. McDonough · 196 Ill. 2d 236 - People v. Ortiz · 228 Ill. 2d 439 - In Re Leona W.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]quitable tolling is granted sparingly only when extraordinary circumstances far beyond the litigant's control prevented timely filing.”
1 later decision 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.