Wolfe v. Riggle’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1989
15 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 Commonwealth ex rel. Fletcher v. Cavell · Glendenning v. Sprowls · United States of America Ex Rel. James Morris Fletcher v. Angelo C. Cavell, Warden, Western State Penitentiary, Pittsburgh 33, Pennsylvania
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 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A juror should be as impartial as sunlight, as unprejudiced as the falling snow, and as unbiased as the angel of truth. . . . “The fact that a juror feels he may be ‘perfectly impartial’ is not determinative of the question as to whether he can be impartial, given his personal involvement in the trial. . . : Mr. Justice Musmanno in his dissenting opinion, Wolfe v. Riggle, 407 Pa. 172, at 183 (1962).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Donofrio v. DeFazio
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.