Luckey III v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 479 · 1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably 31 Foster Children v. Bush (2003), Luckey III v. Miller (1991)
8 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Younger v. Harris · United States v. Cronic · Gerstein v. Pugh · O'Shea v. Littleton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Equity need not intervene immediately in plaintiffs' state trials. Plaintiffs have an adequate remedy at law for any ineffective assistance of counsel they may actually receive. Most important, they can present objections to sixth amendment violations at their state trials and in their state appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“When we embark on this new course, we must prepare to face this unpleasant question: If a state judge does not obey a district court's injunction, are we willing to jail the state judge for contempt?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Tesmer v. Granholm“'challenge the legality of their custody via federal habeas corpus, subject, of course, to prior exhaustion of state remedies.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.