LaGrand v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2013
5 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Chambers v. Mississippi · Estelle v. McGuire · Lockett v. Ohio
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prior to Ken Hartsock being stabbed, Walter LaGrand had stated that he was going to kill the bank manager if the bank manager was lying about being unable to open the vault. Before Dawn Lopez was permitted to leave the bank to turn off her headlights, she was told that if she did not return, Ken Hartsock would be killed. The bank manager was stabbed twenty-four times and Dawn Lopez was stabbed at least seven times. After Ken Hartsock was repeatedly stabbed, either [Karl] or Walter LaGrand was • overheard to say: “Just make, sime he’s dead.” Ms. Lopez testified that she heard both [Karl] and Walter LaGrand make such a statement. This evidence belies a claim of impulsivity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. LaGrand v. Stewart“Had [Karl’s] counsel opened the door to [Karl’s] past, the jury would have learned of a lengthy and violent criminal history. [Karl’s] presentence reports indicate that less than three months before the events of this case occurred, on two separate occasions [Karl] committed armed robberies and kidnappings at Tucson grocery stores, and had prepared to commit another armed robbery at a third grocery store. When the murder of Ken Hartsock occurred, [Karl] had been released on bail while awaiting trial for armed robbery and kidnapping. As a juvenile, [Karl] was adjudicated delinquent for multiple burglaries, armed robbery and kidnapping.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. LaGrand v. Stewart“define a hearing on a motion to change counsel as a critical stage”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hovey v. Ayers
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.