Dobbert v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Adams v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al. (1986), Monroe v. Blackburn, Warden (1986)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 33 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Sanders v. United States · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recantation testimony is properly viewed with great suspicion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“what it is about that recantation that warrants a conclusion that it is not credible evidence.”
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.