Hill v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
617 F.2d 375 · 1980
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Baty v. Balkcom (1981)
30 federal appellate · 5 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Abney v. United States · Klopfer v. State of North Carolina
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Closely related to the length of delay is the reason the government assigns to justify the delay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the postponement is occasioned by the actions of the accused himself, the delay ... may be excused.”
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.