Leroy Williams v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.2d 775 · 1971
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Richardson v. Procunier (1985), Johnny Howard Smith v. Ron Jones (2001)
25 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Clearwater Elks Club, Inc. v. Catrett · Waters v. Beto · 231 So. 2d 823 - Gibson v. Maloney
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“offers no practical remedy that [the state prisoner] was required to exhaust under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254.... The requirements of this section are rooted in the doctrine of comity and should not be so construed as to burden the state system with meaningless petitions for relief to forums which are not intended by state law to consider them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buck v. Green“the decision sought to be reviewed conflicts with a decision of the Florida Supreme Court or a decision of a different district court of appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. Wainwright“[t]he Florida Supreme Court's jurisdiction is strictly described by the Florida Constitution”
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.