Wickham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2021
4 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 Wilson v. Attaway · Brown v. Frey · United States v. Wood · United States v. Potts · United States v. Ferguson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f it appears that there are circumstances in mitigation of the punishment, or that the ends of justice will be served, the court may, in its discretion, suspend the imposition of the sentence ... upon the terms and conditions that the court determines, and shall place the person on probation, under the charge and supervision of the probation officer....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and therefore should be rewarded with a clean record. One of the purposes of the set-aside statute is to provide defendants with an incentive to meet the conditions of their probation.[ 53 ] The Alaska Court of Appeals has also considered the meaning of a set-aside under AS 12.55.085. In Wickham v. State it said that a set-aside order”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court may set aside the conviction and issue to the person a certificate to that effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.