Pierce v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
1 district · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Gideon v. Wainwright · Teague v. Lane · Griffith v. Kentucky · Sullivan v. Louisiana
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Court held that 'a case announces a new rule when it breaks new ground or imposes a new obligation on the States or the Federal Government.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thus, 'a case announces a new rule if the result was not dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant's conviction became final.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.