Wilson v. Cowan’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 166 · 1978
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably United States v. Decoster (1976), Commonwealth v. Rondeau (1979)
15 federal appellate · 9 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 Simmons v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite · Foster v. California · Beasley v. United States · Kephart 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe ... that under the facts of this case, counsel’s failure to call an alibi witness who was ready and willing to testify ... would deprive appellant of effective assistance of counsel. Appellant had only one defense, i.e., that he was not guilty because he was not there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However convinced, and convincing, [the eyewitnesses] were in their identification at trial, we cannot ignore the fact that the identification of strangers in violent crime situations is fraught with the hazard of mistake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.