Gartrell v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 527 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2013
6 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Picard v. Connor · Anderson v. Harless · Jackson v. State of Texas · Turner v. McKaskle
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon the record evidence adduced at trial no rational trier of fact could have found proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martinez v. Johnson
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.