Wolfe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably Ballard v. State (1974), Morgan v. State (1981)
49 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 Hinshaw v. State · Anderson v. State · Boyle v. State · Bridgewater v. State · Robinson 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If there is direct evidence to prove that defendant committed the crime charged, the court may properly refuse to give instructions based on the hypothesis that the case is purely one of circumstantial evidence * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. State““The admission of incompetent evidence to prove a given fact will be treated as harmless when the same fact is fully established by competent evidence that is not contradicted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caveney v. State
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.