Thomas v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 225 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Lavernia v. Lynaugh (1988), Johnson v. Puckett (1999)
9 federal appellate · 1 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 · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Jones v. Howard · Bottoson v. Florida · Skillern v. Estelle
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a crucial, critical, or highly significant factor in the context of the entire trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that counsel’s performance was deficient in that it fell below an objective standard of reasonable professional service; and (2) that this deficient performance prejudiced the defense such that there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial has been undermined and the result would have been different.”
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.