Greene v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
634 F.2d 272 · 1981
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Martino (1981), United States v. Kopituk (1982)
50 federal appellate · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · Alford v. United States · Rodriguez v. New York
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A desire to cooperate may be formed beneath the conscious level, in a manner not apparent even to the witness, but such a subtle desire to assist the state nevertheless may cloud perception.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'this discretionary authority ... comes into play only after there has been permitted as a matter of right sufficient cross-examination to satisfy the Sixth Amendment.’ ” Greene v. Wainwright, 634 F.2d 272, 275 (5th Cir. 1981), quoting United States v. Bass, 490 F.2d 846, 858, n. 12 (5th Cir. 1974). This seems to be predicated upon the statement in Alford v. United States, 282 U.S. 687, 691 (1931), that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“same general time period as the [defendant's] marijuana sale”
2 later decisions 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.