Lackey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 149 · 1997
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Todd Hiivala v. Tana Wood (1999), Murray v. United States (1998)
41 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lockhart v. Fretwell · United States v. Nordic Village, Inc. · Brewster v. Gage · Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plain reading of the AEDPA compels the conclusion that COAs are granted on an issue-by-issue basis, thereby limiting appellate review to those issues alone.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We decline to address those issues rejected by the district court because they tire outside the ambit of the COA .... And we decline to address those claims that Lackey has raised for the first time on appeal because those issues are deemed waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The certificate of appealability ... shall indicate which specific issue or issues satisfy the showing required by paragraph (2) [setting forth the denial of a constitutional right requirement].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.