Lambrix v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
375 federal appellate · 48 district · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,052 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Williams v. Taylor (2000), City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons (1997)
375 federal appellate · 48 district · 119 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBertolotti v. Dugger (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Brown v. Allen
Cited together with Teague v. Lane · Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson · Saffle v. Parks
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 1,052 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A State’s procedural rules are of vital importance to the orderly administration of its criminal courts; when a federal court permits them to be readily evaded, it undermines the criminal justice system. We do not mean to suggest that the procedural-bar issue must invariably be resolved first; only that it ordinarily should be.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unlawfulness of [the defendant's] conviction was apparent to all reasonable jurists.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“felt compelled by existing precedent to conclude that the rule [he] seeks was required by the Constitution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gall v. Parker · Tharpe v. Warden
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.