Fierro v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
879 F.2d 1276 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999), Amos v. Scott (1995)
18 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since ... the Court in Penry was not announcing a new rule ... there was no good cause for not raising the objection at trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The Supreme Court has recently clarified the standard by which federal courts should determine 'whether a state court's ambiguous invocation of a procedural default bars federal habeas review.' Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 , 109 S.Ct. 1038, 1041, 103 L.Ed.2d 308 (1989). Under Harris, a procedural default does not bar consideration of a federal claim on habeas review unless the last state court rendering a judgment on the case clearly and expressly states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar. Id. at ----, 109 S.Ct. at 1043 (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koch v. Puckett“whether, after reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.