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Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1954

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
7
states following
December 2003
most recently cited

5 district · 41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably State v. Rusk (1981), State v. Carter (1965)

5 district · 41 state decisions

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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 Lisenba v. People of State of California · Haley v. Ohio · Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Malinski v. People of State of New York · Ashcraft v. State of Tennessee

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"[The caution] embodies a wise precept, and there are many cases in which it is not only appropriate but required. For example, if the woman's testimony is not corroborated and the evidence is conflicting . . . or if the circumstances suggest doubt of the truth of her story, it is held to be reversible error to refuse the charge." (citations omitted)”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “If sexual intercourse is obtained by milder means, or with the consent or silent submission of the female, it cannot constitute the crime of rape.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the detention the person so detained shall be released or be arrested and charged with a crime”
    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.