Bryan v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 1108 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2001
6 federal appellate ·
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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Cupp v. Naughten · Blackledge v. Allison
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]t must be established not only that the instruction [was] undesirable, erroneous, or even 'universally condemned,' but that it violated some right which was guaranteed to the defendant by the fourteenth amendment, and that 'the ailing instruction by itself so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Before a federal court may grant relief under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 based on alleged error in a state trial court's unobjected to charge, the error must be so egregious as to rise to the level of a constitutional violation or so prejudicial as to render the trial itself fundamentally unfair.”
3 later decisions 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.