Lange v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
869 F.2d 1008 · 1989
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Tanner (1991), Tyson v. Trigg (1995)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was relevant, material, and vital to the defense, and whether the exclusion of that evidence was arbitrary.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Unlike a trial to determine guilt, in which the state must assemble its evidence apart from any contact with the defendant, the defendant is the sole source of evidence in a trial to determine sanity. The defendant thus has the opportunity to manipulate the information the state receives. The state’s ability to call a defense psychiatrist equalizes the advantage reaped by a defendant who asserts the insanity defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“need not exist for any particular length of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.