Wolfe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1985
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Merrill · State v. Leinweber · State v. Malzac · State v. Lee · State v. Swanson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is that a trial court has to submit a lesser-included offense only if there is evidence which produces a rational basis for a verdict acquitting defendant of the offense charged and convicting him of the lesser offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yant
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.