State v. Wheel’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Streich (1995), Wheel v. Robinson (1994)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Huddleston v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Batson v. Kentucky · United States v. Mandujano
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of prior bad acts may be admitted for the purposes stated in Rule 404(b) without a preliminary finding by the trial court that the act actually occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hendricks“whether there is sufficient evidence for the jury to reasonably conclude that the prior act took place,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hendricks“the act took place by a preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hendricks
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.