Joensen v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 1077 · 1980
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Lynn v. United States (2004), Commonwealth v. Passaro (1984)
16 federal appellate · 6 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Draper v. Washington · Molinaro v. New Jersey · Cities Service Co. v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the Supreme Court can summarily and unconditionally dismiss an escapee's appeal without offending the constitution, there is no reason why a state court may not do likewise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitutional right to reinstatement of an appeal abandoned by escape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taveras v. Smith
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.