Powell v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 1056 · 1972
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · United States v. Ballard · Rivers v. United States · United States of America Ex Rel. Cleveland Reed v. Raymond Anderson, Warden, Delaware Correctional Center
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in-court identification of petitioner was based upon observations of him at the scene of the crime and was completely independent of and untainted by the pretrial photographic identification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley v. Estelle“so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”
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.