Osborne v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1237 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Cargill v. Turpin (1997), Lindsey v. Smith (1987)
19 federal appellate ·
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 Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Hills v. Henderson · Larry K. Barnard v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary · Hutchins v. Wainwright
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is material in the sense of a crucial, critical, highly significant factor.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adequate opportunity to consider a party's objection”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when faced with a claim of fundamental unfairness as a federal constitutional issue ... it is necessary ... to consider and determine the issue presented as a federal constitutional issue and not a state evidentiary issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Machin 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.