Wise v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Collins v. State (1981), Griffin v. State (1981)
65 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Weems v. United States · Badders v. United States · Henderson 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Habitual offenders.-(a) The state may seek to have a person sentenced as an habitual offender for any felony by alleging, on a page separate from the rest of the charging instrument, that the person has accumulated two [2] prior unrelated felony convictions. * * * * # #”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shelton v. State · Smith v. State““We do not agree with defendant’s argument. The court presiding at defendant’s trial did not and could not ‘enter judgment of a class A misdemeanor and sentence accordingly.’ Ind.Code § 35-50-2-7(b) (Burns 1979 Repl.). There was no such designated crime as a class A misdemeanor in 1976. We find that defendant’s prior theft conviction was a ‘felony conviction’ as defined in Ind.Code § 35-50-2-1 (Burns 1979 Repl.).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dixon v. State“"Indiana's habitual offender statutory scheme has historically provided for greater punishment than would ordinarily be imposed upon the last conviction. The individual is subjected to the greater sentence neither for the prior crimes nor for the status of habitual offender, but rather the enhanced sentence is imposed for the last crime committed." (Emphasis added.) Id. at 400 N.E.2d 117 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Funk 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.