Tifford v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 954 · 1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Zafiro v. United States (1993), United States v. Browne (2007)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Jackson v. Denno · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Picard v. Connor · Byrd v. Wainwright
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he issue of [the defendant's] knowledge of [D'Apice's] criminal activities was central to the crimes charged by the indictment, and [D'Apice's] testimony was essential to rebut the prosecution's proof on this crucial issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“more than a gleam of possibility in the defendant's eye,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Abbott 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.