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Smith v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis

16 F.3d 638 · 1994

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
May 1996
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Teague v. Lane · Maynard v. Cartwright · Clemons v. Mississippi · Cree v. Goldstein · Stringer v. Black

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “have some doubt as to whether a federal court has the authority to enter”
    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.