State v. Wesson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2012
23 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Dorsey v. Gill · State v. Orosos · State v. Harless
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clearly the jury did not believe defendant's story that he was an innocent bystander. Whether it believed he was an actual participant or an aider and abettor we do not know, but under our statute the distinction between principal and accessory has been abrogated. Section 688.1, Code, 1962.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kittelson
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.