Cox v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 448 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Flieger v. Delo (1994), Battle v. Delo (1994)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 · Barker v. Wingo · Hill v. Lockhart · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Nicholas 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the exhaustion requirement has nonetheless been met because there are no 'currently available, non-futile state remedies', through which the petitioner can present his claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.