Wiggins v. Procunier’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 1318 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Crisafi (1992), Hogue v. Johnson (1997)
18 federal appellate · 5 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 Faretta v. California · Wainwright v. Sykes · McKaskle v. Wiggins · New York v. Ferber · Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. v. Smith
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“raised at any point in the district court proceedings,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayo v. Lynaugh · Hogue v. Johnson“In order to determine whether the right to counsel has been effectively waived, the proper inquiry is to evaluate the circumstances of each case as well as the background of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a colloquy between a defendant and a trial judge is the preferred method of ascertaining that a waiver is voluntary, knowing, and intelligent.”
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.