State v. Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Finley (1996), State v. Arlington (1994)
33 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Knowles v. United States · Halldorson v. Halldorson · State v. Anderson
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.
“The power of discretionary review is to be employed sparingly. As the Commission Comments to Rule 103, M.R.Evid. indicate, the plain error doctrine “will be used in exceptional cases and should not be relied upon by counsel.” We will invoke plain error only when it is necessary to insure a fair and impartial trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arlington“The plain error doctrine provides a remedy in such situations to prevent manifest injustice. When the substantial rights of a defendant are involved, the lack of timely objection does not preclude us from exercising our power of discretionary review to examine any error at the trial court level.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Montana v. Ogle
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.