McKenzie v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 649 · 1980
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Potts v. Zant (1981), United States v. Cates (1992)
22 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 Brady v. United States · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Blackledge v. Allison · Charbonier v. United States · Bryan 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant pleads guilty on the basis of a promise by his defense attorney or the prosecutor, whether or not such promise is fulfillable, breach of that promise taints the voluntariness of his plea.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“waited three years, and during that time, pressed an intervening appeal on other grounds”
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.