Wade v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
420 F.2d 898 · 1969
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably United States v. Frontero (1971), United States v. Martinez (1973)
31 federal appellate · 12 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Von Moltke v. Gillies · David Busby v. William C. Holman, Warden, Kilby Prison · Trujillo v. United States · Kotz 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant may plead not guilty, guilty, or, with the consent of the court, nolo contendere. The court may refuse to accept a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, and shall not accept the plea without first determining that the plea is made voluntarily with understanding of the nature of the charge.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was error, plain on the face of the record, for the trial judge to accept petitioner's guilty plea without an affirmative showing that it was intelligent and voluntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there could not be a voluntary relinquishment of the constitutional right to a jury trial by the entry of a plea of guilty by reason of a waiver which was entered into by this state court defendant when he was in total ignorance as to the length of term to which he could be sentenced upon the entry of a plea of guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duffy v. Cuyler
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.