Lomax v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2015
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Anders v. California · Rawls v. State · Knappenberger v. State · Smith v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“[Lomax] was committed in February, 1982, and therefore could have filed a motion for belated appeal in this court at any time between that date and August, 1983, which was eighteen months after date of commitment. Rule 36.9. He did not file such a motion. Instead, [Lomax] raised the question of whether counsel was ineffective for failure to appeal in his Rule 37 petition, filed April 11, 1984. Rule 37, however, is not a means of by-passing a motion for belated appeal. If it were construed to be so, an appellant could simply ignore the rule limiting the time for filing a motion for belated appeal in favor of filing a Rule 37 petition which may be filed at any time up to three years from the date of commitment. See Rule 37.2(c). (Our italics).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shuffield v. State
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