Winters v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.2d 174 · 1973
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Brown v. Wainwright (1982), Thomas v. Zant (1983)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Brady v. United States · Fay v. Noia
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inherently personal right of fundamental importance is involved,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]ersonal fundamental rights include the right to plead guilty (which of course encompasses the waiver of numerous rights), the right to waive trial by jury, the right to waive appellate review and the right to testify personally.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to be indicted or tried by a constitutionally composed jury is not one of the rights traditionally considered so inherently personal that only the defendant may waive it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aaron v. Capps · Wardley v. State
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.