Murray v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
450 F.2d 465 · 1971
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably United States v. Avalos (1976), State v. L'HEUREUX (1974)
28 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · United State v. Morgan · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"However, where the delay is not only excessive but the result of unexcused inaction or misconduct by the Government, it is prima facie prejudicial. United States ex rel. Solomon v. Mancusi , 412 F.2d 88 , 91 (2nd Cir. 1969). In such a case all the defendant need show is a faded memory. The burden then shifts to the Government which must demonstrate that defendant has not been prejudiced by the delay. Pitts v. North Carolina , 395 F.2d 182 (4th Cir. 1968); United States v. Blanca Perez , 310 F. Supp. 550 (S.D.N.Y. 1970)."”
3 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.