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Waits v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
1
states following
February 2020
most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Wesley v. State (2010), State v. Lane (2020)

46 state decisions

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Drinkard v. Walker · Schofield v. Holsey · Jackson 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] single act may constitute an offense which violates more than one statute, “ ‘and if each statute requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not, an acquittal or conviction under either statute does not exempt the defendant from prosecution and punishment under the other.’ (Cit.)” Drinkard v. Walker, supra at 215 ....”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The rule against mutually exclusive verdicts applies only where the convictions result from the same act involving the same victim at the same instant. [Cits.] Where the victim sustains several injuries, convictions for both intentional and negligent crimes are not mutually exclusive. [Cits.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[a]lthough [Pugh's] decision could be considered foolish and self-defeating, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in concluding that [Pugh's] decision to waive one constitutional right in favor of asserting another was knowing and voluntary.”
    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.