Straight v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably McCleskey v. Zant (1991), Bender v. Williamsport Area School District (1986)
19 federal appellate · 9 district · 25 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Watkins v. Virginia · Woodard v. Hutchins
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen four vote to grant certiorari in a capital case, but there is not a fifth vote to stay the scheduled execution, one of the five Justices who does not believe the case worthy of granting certiorari will nonetheless vote to stay; this is so that the 'Rule of Four' will not be rendered meaningless by an execution that occurs before the Court considers the case on the merits”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hamilton v. Texas“It is unthinkable to me that the practice that four votes to grant certiorari trigger an 'automatic' fifth vote to stay an execution should not apply to a 'hold' when a man's life is in the balance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rook v. Rice, Warden“the Court has ordinarily stayed executions when four Members have voted to grant certiorari”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hamilton v. Texas
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.