Byrd v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 716 · 1984
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2006
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Anders v. California · Townsend v. Sain · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Bounds v. Smith · Ross v. Moffitt
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an adequate opportunity to present his claims fairly in the context of a State's appellate process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bundy v. Wilson
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.