Wainwright v.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
132 federal appellate · 22 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 257 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Hal Roach Studios, Inc. v. Richard Feiner & Co. (1989), Milgard Tempering, Inc. v. Selas Corp. of America (1990)
132 federal appellate · 22 district · 10 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
Relies on Barefoot v. Estelle · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Bailey v. Butcher · Bloodsworth v. Heckler
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 257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If this Court defers only to grants of stays, while giving searching review to every denial of a stay, the lower federal courts may in time come to issue stays routinely. In that event, Barefoot v. Estelle's statement that stays of execution are not automatic in capital cases, 463 U.S. [880], at 895 [103 S.Ct. 3383, at 3396, 77 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1983) ], would effectively be overruled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[s]tays of execution are not automatic pending the filing and consideration of a petition for a writ of certiorari.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Williams v. Chrans“[T]he lower court's decision is 'deserving of great weight'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Delo v. Stokes
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.