Wesley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Beck v. Commonwealth (1997), Leonard v. State (2001)
2 district · 50 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 Payne v. Tennessee · Proffitt v. Florida · Godfrey v. Georgia · Victor v. Nebraska · Ross v. Oklahoma
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen prosecutors attempt to rephrase the reasonable doubt standard, they venture into troubled waters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A verdict may never be influenced by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion. Your decision should be the product of sincere judgment and sound discretion in accordance with these rules of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Floyd v. Baker“The right to a fair trial incorporates the right to have a trial presided over by a judge who is free from bias or prejudice.”
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.