Selvage v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 89 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Amos v. Scott (1995), United States v. Pineda-Ortuno (1992)
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Lockett v. Ohio
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [Franklin ] issue is not a recently found legal theory not knowable by competent trial counsel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bridge v. Lynaugh · King v. Lynaugh“If a defendant perceives a constitutional claim and believes it may find favor in the federal courts, he may not bypass the state courts simply because he thinks they will be unsympathetic to the claim.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“while the movant need not always show a probability of success on the merits, he must present a substantial case on the merits when a serious legal question is involved and show that the balance of the equities [i.e. the other three factors] weighs heavily in the favor of granting the stay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrne v. Butler
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.