Green v. Arn’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 300 · 1988
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Swanson (1991), State v. Roe (1989)
37 federal appellate · 7 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Carafas v. J · Vereen v. United States · McCorquodale v. Kemp
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because significant collateral consequences flow from a criminal conviction, a habeas petition is not mooted merely by the petitioner's release from custody.... It is an 'obvious fact of life that most criminal convictions do in fact entail adverse collateral legal consequences,' and thus the mere possibility that such consequences may exist is sufficient to preserve a live controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Timson v. Ammer“the Supreme Court recognized that, because significant collateral consequences flow from a criminal conviction, a habeas petition is not mooted merely by the petitioner's release from custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.