Spotville v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the “mailbox rule” deems a pro se prisoner’s petition filed on the date it is delivered to prison officials for mailing
• recognizing that “a pro se prisoner litigant’s Section 1983 complaint is filed as soon as the pleadings have been deposited into the prison mail system”
• holding that a pro se prisoner’s application for federal writ of habeas corpus is deemed “filed” as of the date it is tendered to prison authorities for mailing
• holding that under the prison mailbox rule, a prisoner is deemed to have filed a document in federal court when he deposits it in the prison mail system
• holding that under the prison mailbox rule, a prisoner is deemed to have filed a document in federal court when he deposits it in the prison mail system
• holding that a federal petition is deemed filed Nonetheless, Petitioner is not entitled to equitable tolling. After receiving notice of the denial of his art. for determining application of the AEDPA when the prisoner tenders it to prison officials for mailing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Willie Lee Miles v. K.W. Prunty, Warden Attorney General of the State of California
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-08-13· cited 646×
• Fisher v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-05-24· cited 559×
• Coleman v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-08-18· cited 287×
• Roberts v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-01-24· cited 243×
• United States v. Patterson
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-05-09· cited 230×
• Casim Noble v. Walter R. Kelly, Superintendent
  Second Circuit· 2001-04-05· cited 214×
• United States v. Petty
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-06-06· cited 179×
• Cousin v. Lensing
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-11-12· cited 138×
• Silverbrand v. County of Los Angeles
  California Supreme Court· 2009-04-23· cited 126×
• Gary Graham, Now Known as Shaka Sankofa v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-02-26· cited 123×
• Grady Davis v. F. Hernandez
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-08-17· cited 119×
• Kenneth Richards v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-03-05· cited 110×
• Bruce E. Jones v. Daniel Bertrand
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-03-22· cited 98×
• Martin Joseph Sonnier v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-12-16· cited 90×
• Sykes v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2000-03-30· cited 82×
• Pablo Fernandez v. Christopher Artuz
  Second Circuit· 2005-03-17· cited 65×
• Clarence Brown v. Allison Taylor
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-07-12· cited 62×
• Windland v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-08-10· cited 51×
• Morales-Rivera v. United States
  First Circuit· 1999-08-30· cited 39×
• United States v. Steven Gray
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-06-29· cited 37×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Houston v. Lack
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-24· cited 6,563×
• Lindh v. Murphy
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 4,248×
• In Re Jonathan Sims, Janice v. Terbush
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-04-15· cited 487×
• Donald Burns v. Willis E. Morton, Superintendent Peter Verniero, the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey
  Third Circuit· 1998-01-09· cited 411×
• Williams v. Cain
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-10-17· cited 131×
• Christopher Columbus Cooper v. O.A. Brookshire, Sheriff of Ector County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-12-19· cited 128×
• Wayne Peterson v. J.A. Demskie, Superintendent, Woodbourne Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1997-02-05· cited 111×
• Jihaad A.M.E. Saahir v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-03-25· cited 85×
• Gary Moawad v. Major Fred Childs and Sgt. Jerry Upton
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-04-22· cited 33×
• Justin Lee May v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-01-13· cited 33×
• Abel H. Hernandez v. Edward C. Aldridge, Iii, Secretary, Department of the Air Force
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-06-05· cited 24×
• Daniel L. Herrick, 110128 and Thomas F. Williams, 095608 v. Gerald Collins, Superintendent, Gene Gordon, Asst. Superintendent, Richard Dugger
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-10-11· cited 22×
• Oliver Grissom v. Lewis Scott
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-06-28· cited 13×
• Richard Gallegos, Jr. v. State of Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedures Art. 658 Paragraph a and C(4)
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-10-31· cited 9×
• Moran v. Stalder
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-09-09· cited 5×