Wainwright v. Goode’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
308 federal appellate · 27 district · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 695 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Clemons v. Mississippi (1990), Cunningham v. California (2007)
308 federal appellate · 27 district · 64 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Brown v. Ohio · Smith v. Phillips · Sumner v. Mata · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc.
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 695 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no claim that in conducting its independent reweighing of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances the Florida Supreme Court considered [an invalid aggravating circumstance].”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fox v. Coyle · Commonwealth v. Frey“the views of the State's highest court with respect to state law are binding on the federal courts”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is axiomatic that federal courts may intervene in the state judicial process only to correct wrongs of a constitutional dimension.”
6 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.