Bermudez v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 18 · 1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably McCray v. Abrams (1984), Gordon v. Duran (1990)
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Campbell v. Eastland · United States v. Dukes
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the public at large that would be made to suffer, by bearing either the risk of releasing prisoners that in all likelihood were duly convicted, or the costly process of retrying them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hale v. Al Lockhart“[W]here a party fails to respond, after notice the court is ordinarily justified in entering a judgment against the defaulting party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in deciding whether to require plaintiff to produce evidence in support of the claims before entering [a default] judgment.”
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.