Matire v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1430 · 1987
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Greer v. Miller (1987), Bunkley v. Commissioner of Correction (1992)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wainwright v. Sykes · Griffin v. California · Bonner v. City of Prichard
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a substantial, meritorious Fifth Amendment issue”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the prosecution uses defendant’s post-arrest silence to impeach an exculpatory story offered by defendant at trial and the prosecution directly links the implausibility of the exculpatory story to the defendant’s ostensibly inconsistent act of remaining silent, reversible error results even if the story is transparently frivolous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The very first thing that happened to that man [after his arrest], the very first thing after that, they warned him of his civil rights that he may have, and asked if he wanted to say anything, and he said no.”
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.