# Teague v. Lane

> Supreme Court of the United States · April 17, 1989 · 489 U.S. 288

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9431583

## Case

- **Full name:** TEAGUE v. LANE, DIRECTOR, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** April 17, 1989
- **Citations:** 489 U.S. 288; 109 S. Ct. 1060; 103 L. Ed. 2d 334; 1989 U.S. LEXIS 1043
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Blackmun
- **Judges:** O'Connor Announced the Judgment of the Court And
- **Cited by:** 5,196 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Reported overruled in part by Edwards v. Vannoy, 593 U.S. 255 (2021) — not on the Supreme Court's list.
- Negative treatments: 4
- Distinguished by: 23
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9431583

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

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- holding that new constitutional rules of criminal procedure should not be applied retroactively to cases on collateral review unless a new rule (1) "places 'certain kinds of primary, individual conduct beyond the power of the criminal law-making authority to proscribe,' " or (…
- stating that such rules are “best illustrated by recalling the classic grounds for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus—that the proceeding was dominated by mob violence; that the prosecutor knowingly made use of perjured testimony or that the conviction was based on a conf…
- holding that new constitutional rules of criminal procedure will not be applicable to those cases which have become final before new rules are announced unless the rule (1) places conduct beyond the power of a criminal lawmaking body to proscribe or (2) is a “watershed rule[ ]…

## Opinion text

*318 Justice Blackmun,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
I join Part I of Justice Stevens’ opinion, post this page and 319-323, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. So far as the petitioner’s claim based upon Swain v. Alabama, 380 U. S. 202 (1965), is concerned, I concur in the judgment.

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