Wade v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 9 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1993 · most notably Britt v. North Carolina (1971), Mayer v. City of Chicago (1971)
102 federal appellate · 9 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedWilson v. Wade (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Fay v. Noia · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Harris v. Nelson · Kaufman v. United States
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To pass on this contention at this time would necessitate our decision whether there are circumstances in which the Constitution requires that a State furnish an indigent state prisoner free of cost a trial transcript to aid him to prepare a petition for collateral relief. This is a question of first impression which need not be reached at this stage of the case.” Wade v. Wilson, supra at 286, 90 S.Ct. at 504 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This Court today says the petitioner thus raises a constitutional question of first impression, ‘whether there are circumstances in which the Constitution requires that a State furnish an indigent state prisoner free of cost a trial transcript to aid him to prepare a petition for collateral relief.’ ... It may be conceivable that the Constitution would under certain special circumstances impose this duty on the State when it has such a record in its possession, but I cannot agree that anything shown in this record presents those special circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Toussaint
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.