People v. . Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2017
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Upington v. . Corrigan · Perkins v. . Smith · First Construction Co. v. . State of New York · Fowler v. . Coates
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not loosely, but with regard for their established legal significance, and in construing a statute a technical meaning should ** be given to technical words, unless a contrary meaning is unmistakably intended”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chauca v. Abraham
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.