State v. Wooten’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Purzycki v. Town of Fairfield (1998), State v. Figueroa (1995)
159 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 Manson v. Brathwaite · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Kentucky v. Stincer · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]urors are presumed to follow the instructions given by the judge”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The constitutional right of trial by jury includes the CT Page 16237 right to have issues of fact as to which there is room for a reasonable difference of opinion among fair-minded [persons] passed upon by the jury and not by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must weigh the corrupting effect of the suggestive procedure in light of certain factors.”
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.