Wyatt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Lisby v. State (1966), Rocky Mountain Produce Trucking Co. v. Johnson (1962)
68 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 Mapp v. Ohio · United States v. Rabinowitz · Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado · 44 Cal. 2d 434 - People v. Cahan · 45 Cal. 2d 776 - People v. Gorg
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the doing of an act is a crime, regardless of the consent of anyone, the courts are agreed that if the criminal intent originates in the mind of the accused and the offense is completed, the fact that an opportunity was furnished, or that the accused is aided in the commission of the crime in order to secure the evidence necessary to prosecute him therefor, constitutes no defense. 77 Nev. at 496-497 , 367 P.2d at 108 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. State“reasonable cause to believe not only that petitioner was a person disposed to commit the offense, but that he had already committed a similar offense on at least one occasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shrader v. State“* * * but a search incident to an arrest made before or after the arrest is reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harper 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.