Wilding v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2014
14 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 Blackman v. State · 343 So. 2d 883 - Marrero v. State · Clark 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subject to certain exceptions which are not applicable in the case sub judice, it is error for a witness to testify concerning a defendant's arrest for unrelated crimes... . Additionally, we have held that even in the absence of direct testimony by a witness, it was error to allow the admission of "mug shots" into evidence because they constituted an impermissible reference to the defendant's prior arrest record... . [A]n accused's right to a fair and impartial jury is violated when a jury is improperly made aware of a defendant's arrest for unrelated crimes ... during the trial... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the prejudice to appellant is almost as certain to be as great, if not greater, when the information is received in this manner rather than when it is a part of the prosecutor's evidence and subject to protective procedures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pender v. State“jury is bound to be unfairly prejudiced against the accused by reason of their knowledge of his arrest for another crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pender 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.