Hall v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2001
6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Griffin v. California · Fay v. Noia · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now this is a tragic case. We have a deceased woman; she can't testify. I don't know how quick death comes to people; I know some die hard, some die easy. It comes to all of us sooner or later.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hall v. Wainwright“So what happens then? Here we come into something that's important. Who says that Ruffin killed her? I wasn't there. Karol Hurst is dead.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hall v. Wainwright“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, with all due sincerity, I don't see any mitigation in this particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hall v. Wainwright
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.