Wills v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
August 2013
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · United States v. Tateo · Romano v. United States · Jimenez v. Weinberger
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition may be dismissed if it appears that the state of which the respondent is an officer has been prejudiced in its ability to respond to the petition by delay in its filing unless the petitioner shows that it is based on grounds of which he could not have had knowledge by the exercise of reasonable diligence before the circumstances prejudicial to the state occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lopez v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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