Darden v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 1031 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Darden v. Wainwright (1986), O'Bryan v. Wj Estelle (1983)
18 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Wade · Kotteakos v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“undesirable or even universally condemned.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“convinced, as convinced as I know I am standing before you today, that [the defendant] is a murderer.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he question is, do they have enough evidence to kill that man, enough evidence? And I honestly do not think they do.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.