Lockett v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 309 · 1978
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Gates (1994), United States v. Pepe (1984)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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)
Relies on United States v. Agurs · Berger v. United States · Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Augenblick · United States v. Peltier
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would ripen into constitutional error upon a showing that the missing witnesses' testimony, when evaluated in the context of the entire record, would create a reasonable doubt of guilt that did not otherwise exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ashley v. Wainwright“(t)he deliberate concealment of a named eyewitness whose testimony would admittedly be material constitutes a prima facie deprivation of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ashley v. Wainwright“the idea of sending the witness out of town to the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hernandez v. Estelle
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.