Norris v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 130 · 1979
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), State v. Ortiz (1982)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 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 · Townsend v. Sain · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Ross v. Moffitt
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A defendant properly informed of his appellate rights may not “let the matter rest,” Worts v. Dutton, 395 F.2d 341, 344 (5th Cir. 1968), and then claim that he did not waive his right to appeal.’ ” Ortiz, 230 Kan. at 736 (quoting Norris v. Wainwright, 588 F.2d 130, 137 [5th Cir. 1979]).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We hold that neither the sixth amendment nor the fourteenth amendment requires that the record reflect that the defendant made a knowing and intelligent decision not to appeal before he can be precluded from appellate review.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We therefore conclude that there is no requirement under either the Sixth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment that in addition to knowing his appellate rights, a defendant must also knowingly and intelligently make a decision not to appeal before it can be said that defendant is not entitled to appellate review of a criminal conviction.”
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.