Coleman v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 149th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Travelers Indemnity Co. of Connecticut v. Mayfield · Veterans' Land Board of Texas v. Williams · Armstrong v. Randle · Johnson v. McLean · Armentrout v. Murdock
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in some exceptional cases, the public and private interests at stake are such that the administration of justice may be best served by appointing a lawyer to represent an indigent civil litigant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tolbert v. Gibson
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.