Buckley v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 715 · 1989
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Flieger v. Delo (1994), Tiedeman v. Benson (1997)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Picard v. Connor · Engle v. Isaac
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'fairly presented' to the state courts the 'substance' of his [or her] federal habeas corpus claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krimmel v. Hopkins“significant additional facts such that the claim was not fairly presented to the state court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krimmel v. Hopkins“has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.