Davis v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1994
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rose v. Lundy · Antone v. Rl Dugger · Booker v. Wainwright · Witt v. Wainwright
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this abuse of the writ justifies the denial of the application to hold the petition in abeyance pending exhaustion and, even if the petition were exhausted, the denial of the petition in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Dugger“until the Governor issues a warrant for execution and very often the filing is delayed until one or two days prior to the scheduled execution,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Dugger“present the issue of a deliberate delay in the form of a successive petition or deliberate bypass.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Dugger
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.