Bradbury v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.2d 1083 · 1981
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably United States v. Carr (1984), Washington v. Strickland (1982)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 · McMann v. Richardson · Tollett v. Henderson · United States Smith v. Baldi · Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to assist actually and substantially the defendant in deciding whether to plead guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Maggio · State v. Johnson“'[a]s long as [the defendant] underst[ands] the length of time he might possibly receive, he [is] fully aware of his plea's consequences.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of attorneys representing defendants in criminal cases at that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lamb v. Estelle
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.