State v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Rivera (2003), State v. JAVIER M. (2001)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 State v. Sutphin · Roth v. Thompson · State v. Garcia · 64 Cal. 2d 504 - People v. Leal · Herron v. State
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any clearly identifiable amount of a controlled substance is sufficient evidence to support a conviction for possession of a controlled substance;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Valdez“The starting point in every case involving the construction of a statute is an examination of the language utilized by [the Legislature]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.