Wyles v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Jefferson v. State (2008), Dunn v. State (2007)
2 federal appellate · 65 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 Jones v. State · Ross v. State · Sanford v. State · Barnes v. State · Kitchen 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State must have proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Hooks, with the purpose of causing serious physical injury to John Davis, caused the death of John Davis. A person acts purposely with respect to his conduct or the result of his conduct when it is his “conscious object to engage in conduct of that nature or to cause the result.” 14Serious physical injury is a “physical injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes protracted disfigurement, protracted impairment of health, or loss or protracted impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.””
1 later decision 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.