Wiggins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1992
13 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 McNello v. John B. Kelly, Inc. · Herzog v. United States · Bantum v. State · South Atlantic Steamship Co. v. Munkacsy · Daniels 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Except with special permission of the court, no party may assign as error any portion of the charge or omission therefrom unless he objects thereto before or at a time set by the court immediately after the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection. * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flamer v. State““(b) Plain Error. Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webster 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.