Ashley v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
639 F.2d 258 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Washington v. Texas · Tate v. United States · United States v. Morris · Holman Freeman v. State of Georgia
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“witness who was physically and mentally capable of testifying to events that he had personally observed, and whose testimony would have been relevant and material to the defense.”
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.