MacKey v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Hobbs v. Gordon (2014), Young v. Norris (2006)
2 federal appellate · 82 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 MacKey v. State · State Department of Public Welfare v. Lipe ex rel. Atracner · Birchett v. State · George v. State · Wallace v. Willock
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when the commitment is invalid on its face or the committing court lacked jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dawan v. Al Lockhart
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.