Wainwright v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barefoot v. Estelle · Woodard v. Hutchins · HOLTZMAN Et Al. v. SCHLESINGER Et Al. · Spencer v. Zant · Autry v. McKaskle, Acting Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with an impetuousness and arrogance that is truly astonishing,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In lifting the stay imposed by the Court of Appeals, the Court has resorted to an exercise of power that is unusual and that should only be resorted to on the rare occasion in which a lower court has flagrantly abused its discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Delo v. Stokes“indecent desire to rush to judgment in capital cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.