William Gene Null v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 340 · 1975
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably Harryman v. Estelle (1980), United States v. Jiminez (2009)
47 federal appellate · 11 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Escobedo v. Illinois · Harrington v. California
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]trict evidentiary rules of admissibility are generally relaxed in bench trials, as appellate courts assume that trial judges rely upon properly admitted and relevant evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“examine all of the other evidence to see 'whether the trier of fact would have reached the same result without the tainted evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Though some rights are so basic that their violation does not admit of harmless error treatment, the Fifth Amendment as embodied in Miranda's procedural safeguards is not one of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. Singletary
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.