O'Brien v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 1139 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2024
9 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Stone v. Powell
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only observed the burglar for a matter of seconds”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a white male with curly hair and a stocky build”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.