Raulerson v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 869 · 1985
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Griffin v. City of Opa-Locka (2001), Rosales-Garcia v. Holland (2003)
24 federal appellate · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Irvin v. Dowd · Sanders v. United States · Gardner v. Florida · Raulerson v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurors are presumed to follow the law as they are instructed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Successive petitions. A second or successive petition may be dismissed if the judge finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits or, if new and different grounds are alleged, the judge finds that the failure of the petitioner to assert those grounds in a prior petition constituted an abuse of the writ.”
3 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.