Owens v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.2d 1111 · 1983
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Tucker (1983), Gowski v. Peake (2012)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts reviewing a cold record give particular deference to credibility determinations of a fact-finder who had the opportunity to see live testimony.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although federal law requires the judge personally to tell the defendant of the mandatory minimum sentence, Fed.R.Crim.P. 11(c)(1), Florida law does not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stano v. Dugger
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.