Wyatt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2018
18 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 Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · Andrijevic v. Kelleran · Thompson v. Virginia
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acutely aware of their impending deaths.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where defendant subjected them to twenty minutes of abuse prior to their deaths, including pistol-whipping one victim, raping the second victim, and taunting the third victim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to listen real close to hear the bullet coming”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.