Williams v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 1182 · 1982
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably United States v. Hartley (1982), United States v. LeQuire (1991)
27 federal appellate · 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 Abujasen v. United States · United States v. Bright · United States v. Rochan · United States v. Jennings · United States v. Garcia
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question is not whether the jury possibly or even probably would view the challenged remark in this manner, but whether the jury necessarily would have done so.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manifestly intended to comment on the defendant's failure to testify, if some other explanation for his remark is equally plausible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of such a character that the jury would naturally and necessarily take it to be a comment”
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.