Hill v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 801 · 1993
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2011 · most notably McFarland v. Scott (1994), Sterling v. Scott (1995)
13 federal appellate · 3 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 Lucero v. City of Trinidad · Simmons v. Al Lockhart · In re Lindsey · In Re Vivian Berger
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agree[s] with Lindsey's analysis in cases of unexhausted claims, where comity mandates that state judicial proceedings precede the seeking of federal habeas relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A state that has elected to impose the death penalty should provide adequate funding for the procedures it has adopted to properly implement that penalty”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proceedings for executive or other clemency as may be available to the defendant”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hain v. Mullin · King v. Moore
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.