United States v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3,716 federal appellate · 313 district · 8,941 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15,201 later decisions (247 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics (1971), Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973)
3,716 federal appellate · 313 district · 8,941 state decisions — followed in 50 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
reviewedWade v. United States (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States
Cited together with Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Simmons v. United States · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California
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 15,201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether potential substantial prejudice to defendant's rights inheres in the particular confrontation and the ability of counsel to help avoid that prejudice.”
577 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mak[ing] the determination whether the in-court identifications had an independent origin”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in many instances has little, if any, relation to the search for truth.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.