Dillon v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Instances which justify equitable tolling include a corrections officer’s intentional confiscation of a prisoner’s petition shortly before the filing deadline, a state appellate court’s failure to inform a prisoner that his leave to appeal was denied, and an attorney’s failure to file a habeas petition on behalf of a prisoner, despite explicit directions from the prisoner to do so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Franklin v. New York

2. “operating] under an incorrect assumption that the AEDPA statute of limitations begins to run on the day after a petition is denied leave to appeal to the New York Court of Appeals.” 642 F.3d at 360 . The court attributed the incorrect assumption to a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 14 F. Supp. 3d 418 - Chrysler v. Guiney

3. “breached that promise when he failed to follow his client's instruction, with disastrous consequences that [the client] could neither have foreseen nor prevented.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 305 F. Supp. 3d 551 - Samo v. Keyser