Proffitt v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
706 F.2d 311 · 1983
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably State v. Cooey (1989), United States v. Satterfield (1984)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Illinois v. Allen · Drope v. Missouri · Diaz v. United States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · Medlin v. Mann
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e need not decide the issue of whether presence at a capital trial ever is waivable, however, for here, even if we assume that the right to presence in a capital case may be waived, no knowing and voluntary and, therefore, no effective waiver was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Wainwright“the only precedents directly ruling on the issue [hold] that the right to presence in capital cases is so fundamental that the defendant cannot waive it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Wainwright
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.