Clifton E. Spencer v. Ernest Sutton

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that equitable tolling is appropriate where “extraordinary circumstances beyond [the plaintiff's] control prevented [him] from complying with the statutory time limit”
• declining to apply equitable tolling where a petitioner knowingly allowed himself a single day in which to file his federal habeas petition
• declining to equitably toll when the petition was only five days late
• declining to equitably toll when the petition was only five days late
• finding “delay[ ] at every juncture of [Spencer’s] post-plea, state and federal proceedings”
• declining to equitably toll when the petition was only five days late

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Kenneth Bernard Rouse v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-09-04· cited 531×
• Lookingbill v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-06-03· cited 131×
• Christopher Martin v. John Fayram
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-02-24· cited 49×
• Smith v. Husband
  E.D. Virginia· 2005-07-07· cited 36×
• Dunker v. Bissonnette
  D. Massachusetts· 2001-07-23· cited 24×
• United States v. Lexy Herrera-Pagoada
  Fourth Circuit· 2021-09-16· cited 16×
• United States v. Terlingo
  Third Circuit· 2003-04-24· cited 15×
• Waring v. Meachum
  D. Connecticut· 2001-08-24· cited 14×
• Panyanouvong v. Vienna Wolftrap Hotel
  E.D. Virginia· 2007-11-30· cited 12×
• Roberts v. Watson
  E.D. Virginia· 2010-03-18· cited 10×
• McHoney v. South Carolina
  D. South Carolina· 2007-08-14· cited 10×
• Kenneth Bernard Rouse v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-01-07· cited 8×
• United States v. Terlingo
  Third Circuit· 2003-04-23· cited 6×
• Brown v. Langley
  M.D. North Carolina· 2004-11-30· cited 6×
• Griffin v. Padula
  D. South Carolina· 2007-07-06· cited 5×
• Chao v. Virginia Department of Transportation
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-05-23· cited 3×
• Jackson v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 2004-04-26· cited 2×
• Goedeke v. McBride
  S.D. West Virginia· 2006-07-13· cited 2×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-05-23
• WINECOFF v. French
  M.D. North Carolina· 2004-11-30

Cites

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

• Slack v. McDaniel
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-26· cited 41,291×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Percy Stanley Harris v. Ronald Hutchinson, Warden, Maryland House of Corrections J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of the State of Maryland
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-04-04· cited 821×
• Thompson v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Supreme Court· 1964-01-06· cited 403×
• Sandvik v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-06-15· cited 352×
• Thurston Motor Lines, Inc. v. Jordan K. Rand, Ltd.
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-28· cited 213×
• William Hope v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1995-02-15· cited 111×
• Frederick Feinstein v. Morris and Joyce Moses, D/B/A Sun-Cal Products
  First Circuit· 1991-12-12· cited 102×
• Wolfsohn v. Hankin
  Supreme Court· 1964-04-06· cited 90×
• Petra E. Hernandez v. Carol Caldwell Mack Jarvis
  Fourth Circuit· 2000-08-28· cited 77×
• Mr. Jesse Pinion, Mrs. Jesse Pinion, Maurice Daffron, Shirley Daffron v. Dow Chemical, U.S.A.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-04-19· cited 76×
• Weitz v. Lovelace Health System, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-05-31· cited 69×
• Energy Mgt. P 26,666 United States of America v. Glenn Martin Heller, D/B/A Beacon Hill Gulf
  First Circuit· 1992-02-19· cited 60×
• Charles E. Willis v. Lansome Newsome, Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-11-26· cited 53×
• Howard James Moore v. South Carolina Labor Board
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-11-19· cited 45×
• Kraus v. Consolidated Rail Corp.
  Third Circuit· 1990-04-06· cited 39×
• Jerry Lewis Myers v. Linwood v. Stephenson Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, Rufus L. Edmisten
  Fourth Circuit· 1984-11-05· cited 33×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Gereau
  Third Circuit· 1979-07-20· cited 30×
• Wilbert E. Hollins v. Department of Corrections of the State of Florida
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-10-05· cited 27×
• Otis Lee Fairley v. Lloyd Jones
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-08-19· cited 17×