Harris v. DeRobertis’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 619 · 1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Murray v. Carrier · United States ex rel. Williams v. Brantley · 124 Ill. 2d 81 - People v. Bates · Gray v. Greer · 40 Ill. 2d 73 - The PEOPLE v. Diefenbaugh
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No proceedings ... shall be commenced more than 6 months after the denial of a petition for leave to appeal or the date for filing such a petition if none is filed ... or 3 years from the date of conviction, whichever is later, unless the petitioner alleges facts showing that the delay was not due to his culpable negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“during the more than forty years since the provision was included, the Illinois courts have failed to produce even a single published opinion in which the court found a lack of culpable negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barksdale v. Lane
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.