State v. Wideman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Garvin (1997), 37 Conn. App. 276 - State v. Laws (1995)
49 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. Golding · Bryson Properties, XVIII v. Travelers Insurance Co. · School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline · Rowan Cos. v. Parker · Soares v. Vestal
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state of mind of the victim is a relevant consideration in both of these crimes. The statutes focus on the mental state of the victim when the crimes are accomplished by the `threat of force.' The evidence produced at trial showed that the kidnapping was a result, in part, of the fear that the victim had of the assailants and that this fear caused her to be intimidated into going to building thirteen with them. Therefore, the [evidence], which revealed [the victim's] fear of the defendant, was relevant to the kidnapping and sexual assault counts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pascual“A person is guilty of sexual assault in the first degree when such person (1) compels another person to engage in sexual intercourse by the use of force against such other person or a third person, or by the threat of use of force against such other person or against a third person which reasonably causes such person to fear physical injury to such person or a third person....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pascual“with intent to prevent his liberation by . . . using or threatening to use physical force or intimidation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pascual
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.