Walker v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 12 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 257 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Preiser v. Rodriguez (1973), Carafas v. J (1968)
114 federal appellate · 12 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on McNally v. Hill · Graves v. United States
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 257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to test the legality of a prisoner's current detention”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the extraordinary predicament in which the District Court had placed the petitioner”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.