Russell v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 1205 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Koch v. Puckett (1990), West v. Johnson (1996)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Barker v. Wingo · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Teague v. Lane
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prejudice is presumed only if the defendant demonstrates that counsel 'actively represented conflicting interests' and that 'an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Koch v. Puckett“second special issue ... would have provided the jury with an adequate vehicle to give mitigating effect to that evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holland v. Collins“performance in this respect was deficient and prejudicial.”
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.