Lockett v. Arn’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 407 · 1984
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Kennedy v. City of Cleveland (1986), 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State (1987)
20 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)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Lockett v. Ohio · Sandstrom v. Montana · Engle v. Isaac
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the mere failure to object to evidence ... does not render counsel ineffective.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“balanced against the court's authority to control its own docket.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.