Becker v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 172 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Nicholas v. United States · Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin v. New York
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“common usage of the statutory language, judicial explanations, and previous applications of the statute to the same or similar conduct.”
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.