Stanley v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 707 · 1991
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Phelps v. U.S. Federal Government (1994), Nachtigall v. Class (1995)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier · Drope v. Missouri · Smith v. Murray · Cotton Petroleum Corp. v. New Mexico
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stanley's pro se status and his limited educational background do not constitute sufficient cause to excuse his procedural default”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cause ... must be something external to the petitioner, something that cannot fairly be attributed to him”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.