McKinnon v. Al Lockhart Adc’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 830 · 1990
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2018
18 federal appellate · 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 · Reed v. Ross · Morrison v. Olson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the 'tools were available' for a petitioner to construct the legal argument at the time of the state appeals process, then the claim cannot be said to be so novel as to constitute cause for failing to raise it earlier.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Frizzell v. Hopkins“pro se status and lack of familiarity with the intricacies of the law cannot alone constitute cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barksdale v. Lane
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.