State v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 81 Wash. App. 425 - State v. Hayes (1996), Nelson v. Salt Lake County (1995)
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Nebraska v. Wyoming · State v. Fulton · State v. Robbins · McNair v. Haywardd · State v. Burnett
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““First, time does not become an element of an offense merely because the defendant pleads an alibi defense. Therefore, [the defendant] has no statutory or constitu tional right to a charge framed so as to facilitate an alibi defense. Second, it is doubtful that an alibi defense is a realistic possibility because [the defendant] had continual contact with the child.... ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vance · State v. Klenz“fully apprised of the State's [knowledge] regarding the time, place, and date of the crimes, [and] any lack of factual specificity goes not to the constitutional adequacy of the notice, but to the credibility of the State's case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baldonado · State v. Klenz“generalized weighing of the completeness of the notice and its adequacy for the defendant's purposes against the background of the information legitimately available to the prosecuting authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Klenz · D.B. 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.