Wolfe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1991
17 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 Hash v. State · Hester v. State · Wilson v. State · Minton v. State · Randolph 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.
““The purpose of the chain of custody rule is the avoidance of any claims of substitution, tampering or mistake. . A chain must be established where the evidence lacks sufficient identifiable characteristics. However, ‘where the evidence is such that it may be recognized and identified by witnesses, and where tampering or alteration relevant to the purpose to be served by the evidence is not a realistic threat, no chain of custody need be established.’ . . (Citations omitted)”
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.