Ward v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “>5* sfc ‡ ‡ í|í “We conclude the record discloses that the robbery encounter itself provided a so much more reliable source of Valentine’s positive in-court identification than the suggestive jailhouse line-up, that we can safely conclude the latter created no likelihood of any substance that Valentine’s positive courtroom recognition of the defendant was mistaken. The whole street encounter brought Valentine into close physical contact with his assailant, both in casual conversation and in the intimidating circumstance of a pistol-point hold-up for a relatively long time interval in a lighted area, so that sure identification was possible.” jJj ‡ * Hí ‡ (Emphasis supplied)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Daniels v. State

2. “Since the habeas court considered only the same inanimate printed words which are before us on this review, the usual stringency of the Fed.R.Civ.P. 52(a) clearly erroneous standard is ameliorated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCune v. Estelle