Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2014
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 Garner v. State · Ausborne v. State · Acton v. State · Grantham 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the dissent’s argument was correct, then indecent exposure would also be defined by the victim since a mental state (reckless) attaches to a circumstance (the presence of another who will be offended or alarmed by his act).” Court’s op. at 631-32. But the required mental state does not attach to the presence of another, it attaches to the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris, Owen Thomas“A person commits an offense if he exposes his anus or any part of his genitals with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, and he is reckless about whether another is present who will be offended or alarmed by his act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGee 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.