Wyant v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019
16 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 · Patterson v. New York · Bell v. United States · Angrist v. United States · Rivera v. Delaware
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have a statute in this State, Title 11, Section 421, that reads in pertinent part: “The fact that a criminal act was committed while the person committing such act was in a state of intoxication or was committed because of such intoxication is no defense to any criminal charge if the intoxication was voluntary.” Under this section of the Code, voluntary intoxication is not a defense to any criminal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State“[w]hether a course of conduct involving multiple sexual assaults permits prosecution for more than one statutory offense, of rape, ultimately turns on the facts, particularly the timing between the sexual acts and the physical movement of the victim between the acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carletti v. State“the provisions [thereof] must be construed according to the fair import of their terms to promote justice and effect the purposes of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Evans 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.