Lackey v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 116 · 1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2017
4 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Teague v. Lane · New Jersey v. New York · Dennis v. Dennis · West Virginia State Department of Tax & Revenue v. Internal Revenue Service · Wiston XXIV Ltd. Partnership v. Balcor Pension Investors V.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lackey's claim ... fails on the merits, because White [v. Johnson, 79 F.3d 432 (5th Cir.1996), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 117 S.Ct. 275 , 136 L.Ed.2d 198 (1996)], holds that inordinate delay in carrying out an execution does not violate the prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights. Id. at 439.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Bush
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.