Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
April 2002
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Righetti · Soto v. United States · Republic of Ghana v. Trefalcon Corp. · Wethington v. State · Smith 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.
“thoughtfully evaluated the circumstances, and the aggravating factors it found [were] supported by sufficient evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ridenour 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.