Lowery v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 1309 · 1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably Cuppett v. Duckworth (1993), Crank v. Duckworth (1990)
22 federal appellate ·
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. § 1651
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Morrison v. Olson · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“positive and demonstrable nexus between the current custody and the prior conviction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“construing [the petition] as improperly filed makes little practical sense; requiring [inmate] to refile an identical petition would only serve to burden the court's and the parties' time and resources”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brock v. Weston
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.