People v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2025
6 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 City of Canon City v. Merris · City of Aurora v. Martin · Woolverton v. City and County of Denver · People v. Flenniken · City of Greenwood Village Ex Rel. State v. Fleming
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[al city's choice of a sentencing scheme different from the state's is well within the city's constitutional power as a home rule city.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even if state statutes preclude the imposition of probation for a term longer than the maximum imprisonment authorized for a particular offense — an issue on which we express no opinion — 'that limitation serves as no constraint on a home rule city’s right to impose its own system of punishments for violations of its ordinances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Benavidez“impose its own system of punishments for violations of its ordinances,”
1 later decision 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.