Fernos-Lopez v. Figarella Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 20 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Boddie v. Connecticut · Carafas v. J · Jones v. Cunningham · Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person incarcerated for civil contempt, even in the domestic relations context, is obviously in 'custody,' in the traditional sense, for the purposes of invoking habeas jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Spaulding
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.