Ellis v. Mabry’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 363 · 1979
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
March 1989
most recently cited
7 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Sanders v. United States · Ellis v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Delayed petitions. A petition may be dismissed if it appears that the state of which the respondent is an officer has been prejudiced in its ability to respond to the petition by delay in its filing unless the petitioner shows that it is based on grounds of which he could not have had knowledge by the exercise of reasonable diligence before the circumstances prejudicial to the state occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cotton v. Mabry
How this case has been treated — in progress
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