Smith v. Al Lockhart Adc’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 331 · 1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2007
11 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Hicks 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“alleged violation of a state rule concerning post-conviction proceedings, an area in which a defendant is not necessarily afforded constitutional protections”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpson v. Norris · Mack v. Caspari“involved the violation of a state procedural rule concerning criminal sentencing, an area in which a defendant is entitled to constitutional protections,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Simpson v. Norris
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.