State v. Widdison’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2022
17 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 Maryland v. Craig · Hopkins v. Reeves · Webster v. United States · State v. Thurman · State v. Hamilton
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(bly pleading not guilty, defendant placed all elements of the crime at issue, including ... intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'we will reverse a conviction only when the 'evidence, viewed: in light of our interpretation of the statute, is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime of which he [or shel was convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Plexico“[ Wle conclude the trial court properly denied defendant's motion to dismiss. Because we conclude that sufficient evidence supported the jury's verdict, we necessarily conclude that the evidence was sufficient to support the trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Arave
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.