Molina v. Rison’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 1124 · 1989
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Gallo Winery v. Gallo Cattle Company (1992), Commonwealth v. Collins (2005)
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Frady · Stone v. Powell · Massiah v. United States
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A second or successive motion may be dismissed if the judge finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall not be required to entertain a second or successive motion for similar relief on behalf of the same prisoner.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'ground is successive if the basic thrust or gravamen of the legal claim is the same, regardless of whether the basic claim is supported by new and different legal arguments.'”
5 later decisions 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.