Goins v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
787 F.2d 248 · 1986
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Sullivan v. Fairman (1987), Cole v. Young (1987)
25 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Cronic · Dandridge v. Williams · Stone v. Powell
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... federal habeas-corpus relief is precluded if the state appellate court affirms a state trial court decision on the ‘twin grounds’ of (1) lack of merit for the constitutional claim and (2) the petitioner’s failure without justification, to comply with a state procedural rule unless, of course, the petitioner demonstrates in federal court cause and prejudice for the procedural default.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he strength of meritorious arguments is dissipated by the weakness of groundless ones.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.