Williams v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
410 F.2d 144 · 1969
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1982 · most notably Daye v. Attorney General of New York (1982), Brown v. Cuyler (1982)
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Murphy v. Houma Well Service · Boyer v. City of Orlando · Floyd v. Resor · Hill v. Beto · Spencer v. Wainwright
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hen a federal court is unable to determine unequivocably that an issue has been considered and ruled upon by the state courts, comity requires that the initial determination be made by the state courts.”
5 later decisions 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.