Bennett v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 848 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Moore v. Gibson (1999), Ventura v. Titan Sports, Inc. (1995)
14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berkemer v. McCarty · Oregon v. Mathiason
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prove actual prejudice, [a defendant] must specifically identify witnesses or documents lost during the delay properly attributable to the government, relate the substance of the testimony which would be offered by the missing witnesses or the information contained in lost documents in sufficient detail to permit a court to assess accurately whether the information was material to his defense, and show that the missing testimony or other evidence is not available from alternate sources.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'that the delay was unreasonable and that it actually and substantially prejudiced the presentation of [the] defense.'”
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.