Hale v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 545 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2017
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wong Sun v. United States · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · Brady v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[BJecause Davis' lawyer did not unreasonably forego filing a suppression motion on behalf of his client, we cannot say Davis has shown 'a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, he would not have pleaded guilty and would have insisted on going to trial.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]rroneous advice concerning parole eligibility may constitute ineffective assistance of counsel .... [if] petitioner pleaded guilty as a direct consequence of his counsel's erroneous advice and ... but for this advice, the outcome of the plea process would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“guilty plea was not based on a belief that he would be eligible for parole in seven years, but rather on his wish to avoid the possibility of a death sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Al Lockhart
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.