Wolfe v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2014
21 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Payton v. New York · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Gilbert v. California · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant strictly speaking, bears no burden with respect to ‘sudden heat’; however, he bears the risk of not being entitled to an instruction on ‘sudden heat’ if there is no evidence in the case to put the issue of sudden heat in question. Thus, in one sense, he bears the ‘burden’ of placing the issue in question where the state’s evidence has not done so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burris v. State“the prosecution bears the ultimate burden of negating any defense which is sufficiently raised by the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ingle v. State
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.