Wade v. Dworkin’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2019
5 state decisions
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
Relies on Sherwood Bros. v. District of Columbia · American Tobacco Co. v. Strickling · Daley v. District Court of Western Hampden · English v. Dickey · Iannelle v. Fire Commissioner of Boston
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Applicability of Act. The provisions of this Act shall be observed in the construction of the laws of the state unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The time in which an act provided by law is required to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Silides v. Thomas“which sought to require the Secretary of State to order a recount of the votes which had been cast”
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.