United States v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““At the trial below appellant’s counsel stated that ‘our defense was alibi’ and ‘the only special instruction I would ask for would be the alibi instruction.’ Then when the charge, including the standard alibi instruction, was read to the jury appellant’s counsel did not object, but instead stated that he was ‘[sjatisfied.’ Clearly, appellant is now precluded from assigning as error an instruction which his counsel specifically requested and approved . . . Moreover, an invited error generally does not require reversal, i.e., appellant cannot now com plain that the court gave an instruction which he requested.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Daellenbach v. State

2. “(n)o party may assign as error any portion of the charge or omission therefrom unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Pinkney

3. “an invited error generally does not require reversal, i.e., appellant cannot now complain that the court gave an instruction which he requested”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Young