Wilkerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2017
9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 179th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Bourjaily v. United States · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Almanza v. State · Vermont v. Cox · Hanil Bank v. Michelman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] fact issue about whether evidence was illegally obtained may be raised `from any source, and the evidence may be strong, weak, contradicted, unimpeached, or unbelievable,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Daniel v. State · Madden 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.