Williams v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
862 F.2d 155 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably McCleskey v. Zant (1991), Smith v. Armontrout (1989)
29 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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sanders v. United States · Price v. Johnston · Kuhlmann v. Wilson · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Baskett v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Controlling weight may be given to denial of a prior application for federal habeas corpus or § 2255 relief only if (1) the same ground presented in the subsequent application was determined adversely to the applicant on the prior application, (2) the prior determination was on the merits, and (3) the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits of the subsequent application. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a subsequent application for a writ of habeas corpus ... need not be entertained by a [federal court] ... unless the court ... is satisfied that the applicant has not on the earlier application deliberately withheld the newly asserted ground or otherwise abused the writ.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is based on facts or legal theories of which he had no knowledge when prosecuting his prior habeas petition”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.