Wade v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
336 U.S. 684 · 1949
Citation profile
1,165 federal appellate · 106 district · 1,368 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,129 later decisions (92 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Burks v. United States (1978), Tibbs v. Florida (1982)
1,165 federal appellate · 106 district · 1,368 state decisions — followed in 48 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHunter v. Wade (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1511 · 10 U.S.C. § 1564
Relies on Palko v. State of Connecticut · United States v. Josef Perez · Logan v. United States · Kepner v. United States
Cited together with United States v. Jorn · Green v. United States · Arizona v. Washington · Illinois v. Somerville · United States v. Josef Perez
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 3,129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“valued right to have his trial completed by a particular tribunal.”
191 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a trial can be discontinued when particular circumstances manifest a necessity for so doing, and when failure to discontinue would defeat the ends of justice.”
84 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb . . . .”
7 later decisions 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.