Cooper v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 881 · 1986
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Bolender v. Singletary (1994), Edward Horsley v. State of Alabama (1995)
20 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Florida Middle District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a state court's decision to raise and answer a constitutional question sua sponte will ... permit subsequent federal habeas review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a state court decides a constitutional question, even though it does not have to, it necessarily holds that the policies underpinning its procedural rule are unworthy of vindication under the particular circumstances of the case before it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hether petitioner's claim was specific enough to have been fairly presented to the [state court]....”
1 later decision 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.