State v. Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2017
19 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 United States v. Harriss · Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · Rose v. Locke · Wainwright v. Stone · Allen v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“T.C.A. § 39-2-603(a)(2) proscribes aggravated rape and thus necessarily incorporates the definition of rape, being but an aggravated form of the same offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he due process prohibition "does not invalidate every statute which a reviewing court believes could have been drafted with greater precision. Many statutes will have some inherent vagueness for `[i]n most English words and phrases there lurk uncertainties... . Even trained lawyers may find it necessary to consult legal dictionaries, treatises, and judicial opinions before they may say with any certainty what statutes may compel or forbid."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schimpf“[t]he use of common experience as a glossary is necessary to meet the practical demands of legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Schimpf
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.