Wilkerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2008
18 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 104 So. 2d 391 - Harrison v. State · Tirko v. State · 176 So. 2d 611 - Ivey v. State · Stansbury v. Stansbury · 229 So. 2d 604 - Roby 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fingerprint evidence sufficiently met the requirement that where it is relied on to establish identity, the circumstances must be such that the print could have been made only at the time the crime was committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““When circumstantial evidence is relied upon for a conviction in a criminal case, the circumstances, when taken together, must be of a conclusive nature and tendency, leading on the whole to a reasonable and moral certainty that the accused, and no one else committed the offense. [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reynolds 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.