Costello v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 547 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Rhodes v. Chapman (1981), Campbell v. McGruder (1978)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Phillips v. United States · Hampton v. United States · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Jacobsen · Gates v. Collier
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any jailer or other officer, who willfully refuses to receive into the jail or into his custody a prisoner lawfully directed to be committed thereto on a criminal charge or conviction, or any lawful process whatever, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in § 775.082 or § 775.083.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Williams v. Edwards“A statute does not have to be directly challenged as unconstitutional on its face where the impact of a court order achieves the precise result requiring a 3-judge court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.