The original R-Tree paper describes the differences between PickSeeds and LinearPickSeeds in sections 3.5.2 and 3.5.3, and the charts in section 4 show the performance differences between the two algorithms. Note that figure 4.2 uses an exponential scale for the Y-axis.
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~atdb082/wiki.files/paper6.pdf
I would personally use LinearPickSeeds for cases where the R-Tree has high "churn" and memory usage is not critical, and QuadraticPickSeeds for cases where the R-Tree is relatively static or in a limited memory environment. But that's just a rule of thumb; I don't have benchmarks to back that up.