Wafers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1985
17 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 Williams v. State · Walters v. State · 61 Okla. Crim. 18 - Pulliam v. State · State v. Chronister · 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... [Pjrobable cause” or “reasonable cause” itself imports that there may NOT be absolute, irrefutable cause. If the facts are such that a reasonably prudent man would have believed [the] accused guilty, and would have acted upon the belief, a police officer is justified in making an arrest without warrant ... (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. State · Mahan v. State““The statements and exclamations or acts and conduct of third persons are admissible in evidence when they are so closely connected with the crime as to constitute part of the res gestae.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fritts v. State · Neely v. State““ * * * it is a well established rule that rebuttal evidence may be admitted to explain, repel, counteract or disprove the evidence introduced by defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saylor 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.