Guy Billy Lee Scott v. Terry Collins, Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• holding Rule 4 does not give a district court “continuing” power to dismiss sua 22 sponte after the Rule 4 period ends
• holding Rule 4 does not give a district court “continuing” power to dismiss sua 22 sponte after the Rule 4 period ends
• remanding to the district court for consideration of the merits of the habeas petition
• failure to comply with AEDPA statute of limitations is an affirmative defense, which can be waived if not properly raised
• “A district court’s ability to dismiss a habeas petition sua sponte as an initial matter ... does not amount to a power to cure sua sponte a party’s waiver of an affirmative defense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Day v. McDonough
  Supreme Court· 2006-04-25· cited 1,511×
• Eric Martin v. William Overton
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-12-01· cited 1,240×
• Curtis Long v. Harry Wilson, Superintendent
  Third Circuit· 2004-12-29· cited 314×
• Frank Howard v. Barbara Bouchard, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-04-28· cited 308×
• Ralph Stephens Baze, Jr. v. Philip Parker, Warden, Kentucky State Penitentiary
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-06-09· cited 190×
• Solomon v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-11-02· cited 180×
• Maurice Whiting v. Sherry Burt, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-03-15· cited 150×
• Ralph Miller v. Terry Collins, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-09-26· cited 139×
• United States v. Herbert L. Bendolph, at No. 01-2468 United States of America v. Julio Otero, at No. 02-2624
  Third Circuit· 2005-05-16· cited 126×
• Dickens v. Jones
  E.D. Michigan· 2002-04-23· cited 66×
• Stephen M. Nardi v. Terry Stewart, Director
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-01-20· cited 51×
• Thomas M. Keenan v. Margaret Bagley, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-03-10· cited 41×
• Banks v. Jackson
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-08-31· cited 37×
• Patrick Day v. James Crosby
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-11-29· cited 30×
• Jerry Rogers McMillan v. Mack Jarvis, North Carolina Department of Corrections Michael F. Easley
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-06-12· cited 21×
• Dow Chemical Co. and Subsidiaries v. United States
  E.D. Michigan· 2003-03-31· cited 16×
• Smith v. Ohio, Department of Rehabilitation & Correction
  N.D. Ohio· 2004-08-26· cited 11×
• Reichert v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-04-27· cited 10×
• Sudberry v. Warden, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility
  S.D. Ohio· 2009-02-04· cited 2×
• Chesterfield Market, Inc. v. United States
  E.D. Michigan· 2007-01-08· cited 2×

Cites

29 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×
• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Duncan v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 2001-06-18· cited 2,368×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 1,620×
• Freytag v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 1,491×
• Granberry v. Greer
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,175×
• Danny BOYD, Petitioner-Appellant, v. S. Frank THOMPSON, Superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-06-29· cited 688×
• Dewey W. Carson v. Luella Burke
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-05-28· cited 621×
• Sherwood L. Hill v. D. A. Braxton, Buckingham Correctional Center
  Fourth Circuit· 2002-01-14· cited 577×
• James Small, Jr. v. Superintendent Jeff Endicott and Kenosha County Circuit Court, 1
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-06-22· cited 455×
• Donald Harris v. Clarice Stovall
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-05-18· cited 400×
• Murray v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-07-07· cited 381×
• D'Juan Bronaugh v. State of Ohio
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-12-19· cited 381×
• Trest v. Cain
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-09· cited 363×
• Scott v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-09-11· cited 350×
• Angela M. Phelps v. John D. McClellan
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-08-25· cited 305×
• Michael T. Herbst v. Dave Cook, Director Oregon Department of Corrections
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-08-10· cited 288×
• Ronald Dale Yeatts v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-01-12· cited 228×
• Fisher v. State of Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-22· cited 181×