Oliver v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 1524 · 1986
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Lindsey v. Smith (1987), 710 So. 2d 1276 - Williams v. State (1996)
26 federal appellate · 4 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Engle v. Isaac · Caldwell v. Mississippi · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the state applies its procedural bar only sporadically,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state court has overlooked the possible procedural bar and decided the case on the merits,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thigpen v. Thigpen
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.