Diaz v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
905 F.2d 652 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Harris v. Champion (1994), Coe v. Thurman (1990)
11 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Evitts v. Lucey · Rheuark v. Shaw · Simmons v. Reynolds
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“perhaps our only effective tool for assisting state prisoners whose appeals are unreasonably delayed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cody v. Henderson
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.