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← 548 SW2D 37 - Wesley v. State

Wesley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
August 1997
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on American Plant Food Corporation v. State · Henriksen v. State · Victory v. State · Kalmbach 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is essentially evidentiary and need not be specifically alleged. The authority cited for these propositions do not involve the offense of indecency with a child and the Court of Criminal Appeals has not so construed the statutes. Repeatedly, that Court has held that with regard to the offense of indecency with a child, an indictment must allege both the act and the accompanying mental state because the accompanying mental state is a part of the conduct.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.