Wiggins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
7
states following
October 2008
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Johnson v. Texas · United States v. Dennis · Albrecht 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The credibility of a witness may be attacked or supported by evidence in the form of opinion or reputation, but subject to these limitations: (1) the evidence may refer only to character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, and (2) evidence of truthful character is admissible only after the character of the witness for truthfulness has been attacked by opinion or reputation evidence or otherwise, (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Miller“[w]hen the defensive theory of consent is raised, a defendant necessarily disputes his intent to do the act without the consent of the complainant, and his intent is thereby placed in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McLellan v. Benson
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.