Wedgeworth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 2015
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Walls v. State · Leeper v. State · White v. State · McCaslin 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Entrapment occurs when a law enforcement officer or any person acting in cooperation with him induces the commission of an offense by using persuasion or other means likely to cause normally law-abiding persons to commit the offense. Conduct merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense does not constitute entrapment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. State · Elders v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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