Fisher v. Trickey’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Barefoot v. Estelle · Seales v. State · Drake v. Scott
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not support an argument that it is probable that the Supreme Court of Missouri will at some future time grant a defendant’s application for transfer and thereafter grant the defendant the relief sought on direct appeal or on an appeal from the denial of Rule 27.26 relief.” Id. The court provided the state an opportunity to submit supplemental data “to support a reasonable probability that a defendant may obtain the relief he seeks by filing of a Rule 84.08 motion.” Id. The supplemental data, however, did”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Armontrout
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.