Shriner v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
715 F.2d 1452 · 1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably Griffin v. Texas (1984), Martin v. Wainwright (1985)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Wainwright v. Sykes · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Frady
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]othing in this opinion limits the traditional authority of a court to exclude, as irrelevant, evidence not bearing on the defendant's character, prior record, or the circumstances of his offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with a properly instructed jury, there is nothing to show the jury relied on the prosecutor's remarks”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'[a] jury is presumed to follow [the] jury's instructions as to evidence it may consider'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.