Dispensa v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 375 · 1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2015
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Neil v. Biggers · Picard v. Connor · Anderson v. Harless · Duckworth v. Serrano · Galtieri v. Wainwright
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Where] a federal habeas petitioner presents newly discovered evidence or other evidence not before the state courts such as to place the case in a significantly different and stronger evi-dentiary posture than it was when the state courts considered it, the state courts must be given an opportunity to consider the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aiken v. Spalding · Dickens v. Ryan
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.