Funchess v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
772 F.2d 683 · 1985
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Bush v. Florida (1986), Lightbourne v. Dugger (1987)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 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 Strickland v. Washington · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“InFord v. Strickland, 696 F.2d 804 (11th Cir. (en banc), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 865, [78 L.Ed.2d 176] 104 S.Ct. 201 (1983), we held that the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Brown denying habeas corpus relief to that class of death row inmates of which petitioner was a member was dispositive of the inmate's claim that ex parte materials were being used unconstitutionally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Dugger“the question is whether there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer--including an appellate court, to the extent that it independently reweighs the evidence--would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mills v. Singletary“[i]n order to sustain a sentence of death following a jury recommendation of life, the facts suggesting a sentence of death should be so clear and convincing that virtually no reasonable person could differ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Johnson v. Dugger
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.