Wade v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
358 F.2d 557 · 1966
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1986 · most notably United States v. Wade (1967), Stovall v. Denno (1967)
19 federal appellate · 15 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relationships
Relies on Escobedo v. Illinois · Weeks v. United States · Massiah v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Hamilton v. Alabama
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [E]ach of the persons in the lineup was required to repeat words something like, Tut the money in the bag’ in order that the witnesses could hear similar words to compare with their recollection of the sound of the voice of the person who gave them such instructions at the time of the robbery.””
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.