Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1982
16 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 The People v. . Mondon · Redd v. State · Porter v. State · Kelly v. State · Jackson 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.
“‘ ‘ But it is to be observed that none but voluntary confessions are admissible, and that if to the perplexities and embarrassments of the prisoner’s situation are added the danger of perjury and the dread of additional penalties, the confession can scarcely be regarded as voluntary; but, on the contrary, it seems to be made under the very influences which the law is particularly solicitous to avoid.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tuttle v. People““The weight of authority and sound principle favor the rule that .the statements of a witness before a coroner, given in under oath, not charged with the offense, and not under arrest, there being no constraint, are admissible in evidence against him. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tuttle v. People
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.