Barnes v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 336 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2000
7 federal appellate · 3 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Bagley · Hill v. Lockhart
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the very power of the State to bring the defendant into court to answer the charge against him,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthew v. Johnson
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.