Beavers v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
755 F.2d 657 · 1985
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Briones v. State (1993), Childers v. Slater (2000)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 Strickland v. Washington · Anders v. California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · Rose v. Lundy
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based solely on 'vague, conclusory, or palpably incredible' allegations or unsupported generalizations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general rule, of course, is that federal appellate courts will not consider issues not raised in the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Al Lockhart“'the petitioner is black in a white society where justice is a false hope.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Al Lockhart
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.