Kelly v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 1126 · 1988
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2014 · most notably Drinkard v. Johnson (1996), Prejean v. Blackburn (1989)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without new Miranda warnings, Kelly orally confessed. When the confession was reduced to writing [and signed by Kelly], the Miranda warnings were stated at the top of the first page”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. West v. Johnson“[E]vidence of voluntary intoxication can be given full effect by the jury in deciding whether the defendant acted deliberately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. James v. Collins
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.