Timms v. Johns’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.3d 525 · 2010
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 4243 · 18 U.S.C. § 4247 · 18 U.S.C. § 4248 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Stack v. Boyle · Francis v. Henderson · Bowen v. Johnston · Munaf v. Geren · Rasul et al. v. Bush President of the United States et al.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because Timms has failed to exhaust the alternative remedies available for review of his detention in the pending Commitment Action and has failed to demonstrate exceptional circumstances sufficient to excuse his failure, the district court should have refrained from exercising jurisdiction over Timms' habeas petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockerham v. Boncher“In Comstock, the [Government] certified five respondents in its custody as sexually dangerous under § 4248 and requested evidentiary hearings. The cases were assigned to Judge Earl Britt, Senior District Judge in the Eastern District of North Carolina, who appointed the federal public defender to represent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for prudential reasons th[e] Court has required exhaustion of alternative remedies before a prisoner can seek federal habeas relief”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cockerham v. Boncher
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.