Douglas v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
739 F.2d 531 · 1984
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Drummond (2006), United States v. Sherlock (1989)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 21 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Waller v. Georgia · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`look[ed] to the particular circumstances to see if the defendant still received the safeguards of the public trial guarantee.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The most important distinguishing factor is that Waller involved a total closure ... the press and the public having been specifically excluded, whereas Douglas entailed only a partial closure, as the press and family members of the defendant, witness, and decedent were all allowed to remain”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rolfe · Judd v. Haley“only a `substantial' rather than `compelling' reason for the closure was necessary,”
2 later decisions 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.