Waits v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
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
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.
“[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 passagee.g. Hutchins v. State · Linson v. State“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 passagee.g. Kipp v. State“[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.