Skipper v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
598 F.2d 425 · 1979
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Smith v. Black (1990), Moreno v. Wj Estelle (1983)
12 federal appellate · 1 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 · Giglio v. United States · Stone v. Powell · Spinkellink v. Wainwright · Charles Wesley O'Berry v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for perjury by a witness to constitute grounds for the grant of a habeas corpus writ it would have to be shown that the state knowingly used the perjured testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Braxton v. Estelle
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.