Willie J. Sinclair v. Louie L. Wainwright and Jim Smith’s Empirical Analysis
814 F.2d 1516 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably 135 S. Ct. 1932 - Wellness Int'l Network, Ltd. v. Sharif (2015), Lightbourne v. Dugger (1987)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Engle v. Isaac
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]trategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts relevant to plausible options are virtually unchallengeable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e are obliged to remand for a determination on the record of the competency of the witness[.] . . . If the witness was incompetent, then, unless admission of his testimony was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, a violation of due process should be found and judgment entered accordingly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At least nine other circuits which have considered this issue have held that section 636(c) is constitutional because the act requires that the parties and the district court consent to the transfer of the case to a magistrate and because the district court retains sufficient control over the magistrate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ouimette v. Moran
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.