People v. Wesley’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2013
9 federal appellate · 12 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) forcibly confining or imprisoning any other person within the state against his will; (2) secretly confining or imprisoning any other person within the state against his will; (8) forcibly carrying or sending such person out of the state; (4) forcibly seizing or confining, or inveigling or kidnapping any other person with intent to extort money or other valuable thing thereby; (5) forcibly seizing or confining, or inveigling or kidnapping any other person with intent to cause such person to be secretly confined or imprisoned in the state against his will; or (6) forcibly seizing or confining, or inveigling or kidnapping any other person with intent to cause such person to be in any way held to service against his will.”
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.