Wilson v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
345 F.2d 282 · 1965
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Brown v. Beto (1967), 208 Ill. 2d 203 - People v. Campbell (2003)
60 federal appellate · 3 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Fay v. Noia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he accused may waive his right to cross examination and confrontation and . . . the waiver of this right may be accomplished by the accused's counsel as a matter of trial tactics or strategy.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[v]ariations in the factual context giving rise to the issue of waiver of any one right of the accused are infinite.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that a federal court may not issue a writ of habeas corpus to set aside an invalid judgment and commitment where the petitioner is also held in custody under a lawful judgment and commitment. * * * In short, the writ of habeas corpus is only available in situations where discharge from custody will result from the granting of relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Beto
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.