Fisher v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
584 F.2d 691 · 1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Frank v. Blackburn (1980)
17 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Brady v. United States · Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. v. Early · David McChesney v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence obtained at a post-conviction proceeding may serve to supplement the trial transcript and may be used in determining whether a plea was voluntarily made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Balkcom
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.