Wiggins v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 1237 · 1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2001
2 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 Weaver v. Graham · Schwindling v. Smith · William E. Allard, and v. Louis S. Nelson, Warden, Etc., And
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to warrant relief, or, as an initial matter, even an evidentiary hearing, a habeas corpus petitioner must allege sufficient facts to establish a constitutional claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hatch v. Oklahoma
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.