Wolfe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2014
10 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 Hall v. State · 104 So. 2d 524 - Gordon v. State · Fotie v. United States · Yarbrough v. State · State Ex Rel. Luban v. Coleman
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nless the alleged testimony given under oath is germane or material to the inquiry or charge, then its truthfulness is not the vital issue because the purpose to be guarded against and the reasons for the punishment for perjury are to deter persons from testifying under oath to false statements in order to mislead the trier of the facts such as the court or the jury or both and thereby to thwart and pervert justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Diaz · State v. Stocksdale“invaded the province of the jury to the extent of taking from it determination of every element of the offense charged except that of the intent of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellis“It is elementary that every element of the criminal offense must be proved sufficiently to satisfy the jury [not the court] of its existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellis
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.