Wendt v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 619 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Watson v. Graves (1990), Williams v. Henagan (2010)
12 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Selective Draft Law Cases · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Spears v. Ol McCotter · Hurtado v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nless some specific kind of outlawed discrimination is shown the state has the right to make reasonable rules as to whether or not it will pay prisoners and under what circumstances prisoners will be paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loving v. Johnson“When a person is duly tried, convicted and sentenced in accordance with the law, no issue of peonage or involuntary servitude arises.”
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.