State v. Wimber’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2018
14 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he district attorney may file an amended indictment or information whenever, by ruling of the court, an indictment or information is held to be defective in form.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(1) Did the amendment alter the essential nature of the indictment against defendant, alter the availability to him of defenses or evidence, or add a theory, element, or crime? * * * "(2) Did the amendment prejudice defendant's right to notice of the charges against him and to protection against double jeopardy? * * * "(3) Was the amendment itself sufficiently definite and certain? * * * "(4) [If the amendment deletes allegations, d]id the remaining allegations in the indictment state the essential elements of the offenses?"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a fact that pertains only to sentencing is not a `matter that is essential to show that an offense has been committed * * *.'”
3 later decisions 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.