Wade v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Hicks v. State (1974), Spivey v. State (1984)
80 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 Heard v. Gill · Smith v. State
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... unless the jury specifies that the sentences imposed are to run consecutively, then . .. they shall run concurrently.” In Creamer v. State, 232 Ga. 136, 139 ( 205 SE2d 240 ) the court held that a trial court erred”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If there are two or more convictions in a multi-count indictment, the jury must prescribe the sentence to be served on each count. And unless the jury specifies that the sentences imposed are to run consecutively, then the law (Code Ann. § 27-2510) is that they shall run concurrently ... a trial judge does not have legal authority to say whether sentences imposed by a jury in a multi-count indictment shall run concurrently or consecutively. Under our present statutes that function is solely within the province of the jury.”
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.