Wayne v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
646 F.2d 1268 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably United States v. $83,320 in United States Currency and $40 in Canadian Currency (1982), United States v. Shami (1985)
15 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 Anders v. California · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Molinaro v. New Jersey · Estelle v. Dorrough · Eisler 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a criminal defendant who by his escape removes himself from the court's power and process and remains at large during the pendency of his appeal forfeits his right to appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No persuasive reason exists why this Court should proceed to adjudicate the merits of a criminal case after the convicted defendant who has sought review escapes from the restraints placed upon him pursuant to the conviction.”
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.