Burdine v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• remedying a prisoner’s confinement in violation of the Constitution “is the very essence of the writ of habeas corpus”
• ordering defendant released due to state’s failure to obtain stay in accordance with district court’s opinion
• the state failed to initiate remedies for the petitioner’s unconstitutional incarceration within the time allotted, although it did eventually move for a stay of the court’s order granting relief and for leave to file such a motion out of time, asserting excusable neglect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Faye D. Copeland v. James Washington, Faye D. Copeland v. James Washington
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-11-30· cited 42×
• Wolfe v. Clarke
  E.D. Virginia· 2011-11-22· cited 9×
• Pouncy v. Palmer
  E.D. Michigan· 2016-03-04· cited 7×
• Wanatee v. Ault
  N.D. Iowa· 2000-11-02· cited 4×
• Etherly v. Schwartz
  N.D. Illinois· 2009-10-09· cited 4×
• Faye Copeland v. James Washington
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-11-30

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Coleman v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 12,560×
• Fay v. Noia
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 3,950×
• McCleskey v. Zant
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-16· cited 3,331×
• Hilton v. Braunskill
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 1,809×
• Smith v. Murray
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-26· cited 1,683×
• International Union, United Mine Workers v. Bagwell
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-30· cited 1,242×
• McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co.
  Supreme Court· 1949-02-14· cited 1,180×
• Bowen v. Johnston
  Supreme Court· 1939-01-30· cited 492×
• Ex Parte Bollman and Swartwout
  Supreme Court· 1807-02-20· cited 488×
• Richmond v. Lewis
  Supreme Court· 1992-12-01· cited 349×
• Burdine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-15· cited 284×
• James Capps v. George Sullivan
  Tenth Circuit· 1993-12-29· cited 230×
• William L. Wiley v. Steve W. Puckett, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, and Mike Moore, Attorney General
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-08-05· cited 199×
• Travelers Insurance v. Liljeberg Enterprises, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-11-21· cited 181×
• Ex Parte Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1873-10-01· cited 140×
• Waffenschmidt v. Mackay
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-06-21· cited 129×
• Brenda Chilcutt v. United States of America, Randell P. Means, in His Individual Capacity
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-12-22· cited 113×
• United States v. Larry Dickinson and Gibbs Adams
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-08-22· cited 111×
• Harrison Fagan v. Odie Washington, Warden, and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-09-05· cited 111×