Wade v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Aaron v. State (1960), RLR v. State (1971)
44 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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · State ex rel. Meyer v. Greene · Lide v. State · Bell v. State · Jackson v. Mobley
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whatever may be the rule in other states, the framers of our present Constitution regarded section 6 as mandatory, and as preventing the general exclusion of court attendants and spectators by changing the rule in a few instances by inserting section 169.... "To hold that the trial court could exclude the public generally in cases not mentioned in section 169 of the Constitution would, in effect, emasculate said section, and convict the framers of our present Constitution of a vain and useless act in the insertion and adoption of said section. "... It is therefore manifest that section 6 guarantees the accused, under all prosecutions by indictment, a `public' trial, except as to cases expressly reserved from the influence of that section by section 169, and which said last section does not include the present charge."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the writ should be denied because of a failure of the defendant to object and except to the order when made.”
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.