Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2022
22 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Pilon v. E Bordenkircher · Sanchez v. State · Jones v. State · Blakely 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The law makes no distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence and only requires that the jury, before convicting a defendant, be satisfied of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt from all the evidence in the case. Circumstantial evidence has both standing and stature.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hopkinson v. State · Brown v. State“(a) A person who steals, takes and carries, leads or drives away property of another with intent to deprive the owner or lawful possessor is guilty of larceny.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Powell v. State · Mendicoa v. State“'The wrongful taking of another's property with no apparent intention of returning it, and in the absence of any explanatory cireumstances' can support a finding of intent to deprive.”
2 later decisions 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.