Wainwright v. Sykes’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 522 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1996
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. Zerbst · Jackson v. Denno · Fay v. Noia · Carnley v. Cochran
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can find no possible advantage which the defense might have gained, or thought they might gain, from the failure to conform with Florida Criminal Procedure Rule 3.190(i).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wainwright v. Sykes“(t)he burden is on the State to secure (a) prima facie determination of voluntariness, not upon the defendant to demand it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wainwright v. Sykes“(t)he failure to object in this case cannot be dismissed as a trial tactic, and thus a deliberate by-pass,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wainwright v. Sykes
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.