Wright v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.3d 542 · 1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2017
4 federal appellate · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · United States v. Dixon · Grady v. Corbin · Dowling v. United States · United States v. Felix
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a previous judgment of acquittal [is] based upon a general verdict ... a court [is required] to examine the record ... and conclude whether a rational jury could have grounded its verdict upon an issue other than that which the [appellant] seeks to foreclose from consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. State“Dowling teaches that the Ashe holding only bars relitigation of a previously rejected factual allegation where that fact is an ultimate issue in the subsequent case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.