McCoy v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 954 · 1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Smith v. Black (1990), Moore v. Johnson (1999)
9 federal appellate · 17 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier · 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no deficiency in failing to request a competency hearing where there is no evidence of incompetency.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The reasonableness of counsel's actions may be determined or substantially influenced by the defendant's own statements or actions.... In particular, what investigation decisions are reasonable depends critically on such information.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not a recently found legal theory not knowable by competent trial counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fierro v. Lynaugh
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.