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Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288 (1989), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that in habeas corpus proceedings, only a limited set of important substantive or procedural rights will be enforced retroactively or announced prospectively. This case addresses the Federal Court's threshold standard of deciding whether Constitutional claims will be heard. Application of the "Teague test" at the most basic level limits habeas corpus.

Supreme Court
The retroactivity of new constitutional rules was not among the questions that were presented to the Court, and parties to the case did not brief or argue on the issue. (Blume 325, 339)

The Court established a modified form of Judge Harlan's test for all retroactivity cases, (Boshkoff 652) no longer distinguishing between direct and collateral review. (Boshkoff 651)

Subsequent cases
Weeks after the decision in Teague v. Lane, in Penry v. Lynaugh (1989), the Court expanded the new Teague analysis to habeas death penalty cases. (Boshkoff 652)