Young v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 1133 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000), Crank v. Duckworth (1990)
14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wolff v. McDonnell · Hill v. Lockhart · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brady v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a petitioner alleges credit [in some degree on the sentence he is currently serving], the court has jurisdiction over the petition to determine whether credit would be provided, even if the petitioner has cited to no authority or law that would demonstrate an earlier release.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hendrix v. Lynaugh“we are unwilling to . . . accommodate new factual allegations in support of a previously asserted legal theory, even though these factual allegations came into existence after the state habeas relief had been denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“positive and demonstrable nexus between [a petitioner's] current custody and the allegedly unconstitutional [prior] conviction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Willis v. Collins
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.