State v. Wiggins’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2018
10 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 State v. Haggard · Heinze v. People · State Ex Rel. Edelstein v. Huneke · State v. Johnson · State v. Stewart
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The possibility of prejudice against defendant resulting from evidence or knowledge of prior crimes outweighs any policy argument ... "`It seems too plain for argument that to place before a jury the charge in an indictment, and to offer evidence on trial as a part of the state's case that the defendant has previously been convicted of one or more offenses is to run a great risk of creating a prejudice in the minds of the jury that no instruction of the court can wholly erase * * *'" Wiggins, 96 Idaho at 768 , 536 P.2d at 1118 (citations omitted).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The possibility of prejudice against defendant resulting from evidence or knowledge of prior crimes outweighs any policy argument ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sharp
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.