Autry v. McKaskle, Acting Director, Texas Department of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2003 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), Hamilton v. Texas (1990)
40 federal appellate · 10 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 Barefoot v. Estelle · United States v. Shipp · United States v. Thevis · Government of Virgin Islands v. Smith · United States v. Morrison
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dramatically expediting its normal deliberative processes to clear the way for an impending execution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.