Wingfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Misskelley v. State (1996), Ferguson v. State (2000)
28 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 Russell v. United States · Brown v. Schweitzer · Berna v. State · Foster v. State · Brewer 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While neither the results of a he detector examination nor testimony that indirecdy or inferentially apprises a jury of the results of a lie detector examination are admissible, the fact that the jury is apprised that a lie detector test was taken is not necessarily prejudicial if no inference as to the result is raised or if any inferences that might be raised as to the result are not prejudicial. See Johnson v. Florida, [ 166 So. 2d 798 (Fla. 1964)]. Consequently, a witness’s veracity can not be bolstered or discredited by proof of his taking or refusing a he detector test, and evidence of a witness’s willingness or reluctance to be examined is also prejudicial and inadmissible to prove consciousness of innocence or of guilt. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.