Miller v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 287 · 1989
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably McCalden v. California Library Ass'n (1990), Hostler v. Groves (1990)
29 federal appellate · 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Houston v. Lack · Rodgers v. Watt · Thompson v. Montgomery · Logan v. Central Freight Lines
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would encourage prison officials, who often are the appellees in these suits, to delay mailing notices of appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“notices of appeal are deemed filed when they are delivered to prison authorities for forwarding to the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only then will we have jurisdiction over this appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hostler v. Groves
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.