Harich v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
813 F.2d 1082 · 1987
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Lightbourne v. Dugger (1987)
37 federal appellate · 18 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Doyle 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as long as the significance of [the jury's] recommendation is adequately stressed.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. State · Rieber v. State“[a]lthough inconsistent and alternative defenses may be raised, competent trial counsel know that reasonableness is absolutely mandatory if one hopes to achieve credibility with the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]s you have been told, the final decision as to what punishment shall be imposed is the responsibility of the judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harich v. Dugger · Mann 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.