State v. Wimberly’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2026
19 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 Frye v. United States · People v. Castro · Caldwell v. State · State v. Pennington · State v. Schwartz
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the offered object is not readily identifiable or distinguishable, or is susceptible to alteration by mistake in substitution, tampering or contamination, a proper foundation requires testimony tracing the chain of custody of the object with sufficient completeness to render it improbable that the original item has been so altered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Prejudicial error' for purposes of determining whether error constitutes grounds for mistrial is error `which in all probability must have produced some effect upon the jury's verdict and is harmful to the substantial rights of the party assigning it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mitchell
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.