Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Johnson v. State (1985), Lowery v. State (1985)
28 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Maldonado v. State · Norton v. State · Penn 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Error can only be predicated on questions presented to and ruled upon by the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The seope of rebuttal is a matter left to the discretion of the trial court and failure to limit its scope is reversible error only for abuse of that discretion." Wells v. State, (1982) Ind., 441 N.E.2d 458, 464 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Music v. State“[rlebuttal evidence is limited to that which tends to explain, contradict, or disprove evidence offered by the adverse party”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Isaacs 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.