Lane v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 363 · 1992
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Jenkins v. Gramley (1993), Markham v. Clark (1992)
33 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 Coleman v. Thompson · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane · Link v. Wabash Railroad
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s the constitution does not guarantee the aid of counsel to prosecute a collateral attack, putting a prisoner to a choice between a lawyer and a prompt hearing does not violate the Constitution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State, or that there is either an absence of available State corrective process or the existence of circumstances rendering such process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When a state would treat complete failure to present a claim as forfeiture, ... the federal court may enforce the state's bar on collateral review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Markham v. Clark
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.