State v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 306 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 311 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Maurer (1984), State v. Hill (1996)
1 federal appellate · 306 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 Griffin v. California · Chambers v. Maroney · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Trudo v. United States · Starr 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 311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The burden of proof is placed upon the defendant to demonstrate prejudice, (2) it is presumed that the trial judge is in the best position to decide when a breach is committed and what corrective measures are called for, (3) the remarks are to be considered in light of the circumstances under which they are made, (4) consideration is to be given to their possible effect upon the jury, and (5) to their possible impairment of the effectiveness of counsel.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * [including] the argument of counsel to relevant and material matters with a view to expeditious and effective ascertainment of the truth regarding the matters in issue.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the judge must be cognizant of the effect of his comments upon the jury.”
5 later decisions 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.