Urdy v. Ol McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 652 · 1985
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jones v. Wj Estelle · National Farmers' Organization, Inc. v. Associated Milk Producers, Inc. · French v. Wj Estelle · Daniels v. Blackburn
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the petitioner must be given specific notice that the court is considering dismissal and given at least 10 days in which to explain the failure to raise the new grounds in a prior petition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a petitioner has filed one or more previous petitions, the petitioner’s subsequent petition may be dismissed if it fails to allege any new grounds for relief. It may also be dismissed if the judge finds that the new grounds that were alleged should have been asserted in an earlier petition and that the present petition constitutes “an abuse of the writ.” Rule 9(b) of Rules Governing Section 2254 cases. Even so, a petitioner may assert a new claim in a successive petition so long as it is “based on facts or legal theories about which [the petitioner] had no knowledge when prosecuting [the petitioner’s] prior habeas petition.””
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.