Raulerson v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 803 · 1984
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably United States v. Teague (1992), Raulerson v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections (1984)
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Faretta v. California · Townsend v. Sain · Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although a defendant need not 'continually renew his request to represent himself even after it is conclusively denied by the trial judge,' he must pursue the matter diligently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stano v. Dugger · Stano v. Dugger“A defendant may waive his right of self-representation by electing to act as co-counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nless we can assume that Raulerson would have acted the same way if the trial court, in response to his first demand, had undertaken in a proper manner to acquaint him with the problems he faced, then it seems to me that the trial court's failure to hold such a hearing could not be deemed as being ratified because six months after the sentencing hearing, he acted in the manner in which he did.”
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.