Wilson v. Phend’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 1197 · 1969
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Beasley v. United States (1974), United States v. McCord (1975)
28 federal appellate · 4 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anders v. California · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Wade
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“liberal construction is to be accorded material drawn pro se”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) The conflict of interest between Bangs’ [Wilson’s retained attorney] position as counsel and his ownership and active participation in the publication of a local newspaper ; (2) The prejudicial publicity in Bangs’ and other newspapers and the failure of counsel to make any attempt to protect Wilson from the prejudice caused by such publicity at trial; (3) The change of petitioner’s plea without his prior knowledge or consent; (4) The refusal of counsel to present the alibi witnesses and other exculpatory evidence; and (5) The failure of counsel to file a timely motion for a new trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whipped the public into such a frenzy that petitioner was adjudged guilty long before his trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Lash
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.