Williams v. Maggio’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 381 · 1982
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably State v. Antwine (1987), Washington v. Strickland (1982)
65 federal appellate · 16 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Aguilar v. Texas · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclusion of a venireman is impermissible unless he states in response to all questions that he absolutely refuses to consider the death penalty.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provides adequate safeguards against freakish imposition of capital punishment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unmistakably clear (1) that they would automatically vote against the imposition of capital punishment without regard to any evidence that might be developed at the trial of the case before them, or (2) that their attitude toward the death penalty would prevent them from making an impartial decision as to the defendant’s guilt.”
2 later decisions 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.