Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1973
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Russ · Stevens v. Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corp. · Commonwealth v. Sansone · Commonwealth v. Phelps · Hallwood Cash Register Co. v. Prouty
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Q. In fact, I’ll ask you this, if it isn’t a fact that you instigated a prosecution against your father for assault with intent to murder on you. Isn’t that a fact ?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wells 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.