Smith v. Ward

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an untimely petition for state post-conviction relief was “properly filed” because the statute’s exceptions to its timeliness requirements prevented the statute from imposing an “absolute bar to filing”
• holding that although Louisiana court held post-conviction petition untimely filed, statutory exceptions to filing requirement rendered petition “properly filed” for purposes of § 2244(d)
• finding because “Louisiana courts will accept a prisoner’s application for filing and review it to determine whether any of the statutory exceptions to filing are applicable . . . [the application] was ‘properly filed’” despite being time barred
• state application for post-conviction relief, denied as time-barred pursuant to LA. CODE CRIM. P. art. 930.8, “properly filed” within meaning of § 2244(d)(2)
• pre-Artuz decision concluding that untimely application for post-conviction relief was properly filed because Louisiana courts will accept and review a prisoner’s application to determine whether any statutory exceptions to the time bar are applicable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Artuz v. Bennett
  Supreme Court· 2000-11-07· cited 1,366×
• Merritt v. Blaine
  Third Circuit· 2003-04-16· cited 245×
• Drew v. Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-07-18· cited 179×
• Charles Brown v. Robert Shannon the District Attorney of the County of Philadelphia the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania
  Third Circuit· 2003-03-17· cited 173×
• Lookingbill v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-06-03· cited 131×
• Mathis v. Thaler
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-08-20· cited 105×
• Fortunado L. Dictado,petitioner-Appellant v. Kenneth Ducharme,respondent-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-03-28· cited 97×
• Julius James Larry, III v. Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-04-19· cited 79×
• Emerson v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-15· cited 75×
• Moore v. Cain
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-07-11· cited 71×
• Michael Wayne Jenkins v. Dan Johnson, Superintendent
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-05-20· cited 63×
• Robertson v. Cain
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-03-05· cited 56×
• Elmore J. Williams v. Burl Cain
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-06-29· cited 49×
• Marilynn R. Malcom v. Alice Payne
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-02-22· cited 37×
• Dilworth v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-06-20· cited 32×
• Daniel Siebert v. Donal Campbell
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-06-23· cited 28×
• Lynn Brooks v. Jonathan R. Walls, Warden, Menard Correctional Center
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-08-23· cited 26×
• Grillette v. Warden, Winn Correctional Center
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-06-22· cited 23×
• Hall v. Cain
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-07-12· cited 20×
• Kevin Rice v. Edwin R. Bowen
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-06-28· cited 20×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-05-08· cited 1,362×
• James C. Flanagan v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-09-01· cited 344×
• Feliz Talaz Villegas v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-09-14· cited 159×
• Fields v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-10-29· cited 67×
• State ex rel. Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1997-10-10· cited 1×

Other cases named Smith v. Ward

9 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Smith v. Ward
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1953-03-20· cited 8×
• Smith v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-12-20· cited 5×
• Smith v. Ward
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1924-03-04· cited 3×
• Smith v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1946-05-04· cited 3×
• Smith v. Ward
  Tenth Circuit· 2005-11-10· cited 1×
• Smith v. Ward
  Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York· 1925-06-15
• Smith v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1848-01-15
• Smith v. Ward
  Tenth Circuit· 2002-07-26
• Smith v. Ward
  Supreme Court· 1997-10-06