Wells v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
May 2013
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sensback v. State · Abel v. State · Wilkie v. State · Groves v. State · Boner 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] guilty plea does not rise to the level of significant mitigation where the defendant has received a substantial benefit from the plea or where the evidence against him is such that the decision to plead guilty is merely a pragmatic one.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Perry v. State · Fields 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.