Brewer v. Raines’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 117 · 1982
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Campbell v. Wood (1994), United States v. Houtchens (1991)
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Pointer v. Texas · Illinois v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Sumner v. Mata
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he record shows that petitioner was informed of his original trial date and that his trial could be held in absentia if he voluntarily failed to appear. This notice was sufficient to evoke a knowledgeable waiver of petitioner's right to be present.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The finding of voluntary absence, and, therefore, the existence of a waiver of the right to be present, is basically a question of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“comports with the requirements of a waiver of the defendant's constitutional rights provided that the defendant is afforded a hearing to determine whether his absence was, in fact, voluntary.”
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.