Cook v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 1072 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably 524 So. 2d 313 - Cabello v. State (1988), Turpin v. Todd (1997)
16 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · McMann v. Richardson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a state court bases its decision upon the alternative grounds of procedural default and a rejection of the merits, a federal court must, in the absence of good 'cause' and 'prejudice', deny habeas corpus relief because of the procedural default.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] particular decision not to investigate must be directly assessed for reasonableness in all the circumstances, applying a heavy measure of deference to counsel's judgments.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“imposes no general, per se duty on counsel to investigate whether a defendant's prior convictions were counseled.”
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.