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Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
3
states following
February 2022
most recently cited

14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2022

14 state decisions

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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 Lovell v. State · 70 Okla. Crim. 443 - Sweet v. State · 92 Okla. Crim. 70 - Williams v. State · Sargent v. State · Thompson 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The hearsay rule, ... does not operate ... to render inadmissible every statement repeated by witness as made by another person. It does not exclude evidence offered to prove fact that a statement was made or a conversation was had, rather than the truth of what was said. Where the mere fact that a statement was made or a conversation was had is independently relevant, regardless of its truth or falsity, such evidence is admissible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Lee v. State
  2. ““[Ajnything which tends to show bias or prejudice on the part of the witness or anything which shows his friendship or enmity toward either of the parties is commonly a proper subject of inquiry; so, also is anything which tends to show that in the circumstances in which he is placed he has a strong temptation to swear falsely. . . . ” (Emphasis added)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mays 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.