State v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Burkhart (2002), State v. Locklair (2000)
60 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 State v. Torrence · State v. Patterson · State v. Davis · State v. Nichols · State v. Gardner
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant must be without fault in bringing on the difficulty; (2) the defendant must have been in actual imminent danger of losing his life or sustaining serious bodily injury, or he must have actually believed he was in immi nent danger of losing his life or sustaining serious bodily injury; (3) if his defense is based upon his belief of imminent danger, the defendant must show that a reasonably prudent person of ordinary firmness and courage would have entertained the belief that he was actually in imminent danger and that the circumstances were such as would warrant a person of ordinary prudence, firmness, and courage to strike the fatal blow in order to save himself from serious bodily harm or the loss of his life; and (4) the defendant had no other probable means of avoiding the danger.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Light · State v. Smith“current law requires the State to disprove self-defense, once raised by the defendant, beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen ruling on a motion for a directed verdict, the [circuit court] is concerned with the existence of evidence, not its weight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Oates
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.