424 So. 2d 648 - Wesley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably 594 So. 2d 1253 - McMillian v. State (1991), 515 So. 2d 55 - Kinder v. State (1986)
26 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Swain v. State of Alabama · Hamling v. United States · Duren v. Missouri · Hamilton v. Alabama
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court may properly refuse to charge on lesser included offenses when it is clear to the judicial mind that there is no evidence tending to bring the offense within the definition of the lesser offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant is likewise not entitled to charges on lesser included offenses when he denied committing the crime itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“" 'In order to establish a prima facie violation of the fair-cross-section requirement, the defendant must show (1) that the group alleged to be excluded is a "distinctive" group in the community; (2) that the representation of this group in venires from which juries are selected is not fair and reasonable in relation to the number of such persons in the community; and (3) that this underrepresentation is due to systematic exclusion of the group in the jury-selection process.' Duren [v. Missouri , 439 U.S. 357 , 99 S.Ct. 664 , 668 , 58 L.Ed.2d 579 (1979)]."”
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.