Smith III v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
664 F.2d 1194 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2013
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 · Corbitt v. New Jersey · Ruffalo v. Mahoning County Bar Ass'n · United States v. Wiley · 345 So. 2d 417 - Travelers Indem. Co. of RI v. Mirlenbrink
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constitution forbids the exaction of a penalty for a defendant's unsuccessful choice to stand trial,”
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.