State v. Willson’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1972 · most notably State v. Turnbow (1960), State v. Folkes (1944)
4 federal appellate · 33 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 People v. . Molineux · Boyd v. United States · Moore v. United States · People v. . Sharp · State v. Lyle
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence of other offenses in this case only tend to blacken the character of the defendant. They are not admissible to show intent for that is completely and conclusively established by the act itself if the testimony introduced by the state is to be believed. It is contrary to the reason of the law to admit the objectionable testimony of other crimes. The defendant had a constitutional right to be informed of the nature of the charge against him, and to be held to answer only the crime named in the indictment. No defendant ought to be deprived of his liberty by hue and cry, or by the mob-mad yell of `Crucify him!', but only upon an indictment constitutionally framed and proven by evidence of criminal acts, a connection between which `must have existed in the mind of the actor, linking them together for some purpose he intended to accomplish.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elges“* * * even if the testimony were admissible, the prosecution had no right to have its witness make the bald statement that there were two other miscarriages, without including in her testimony the other statutory elements of the crime, viz., intent to destroy the child, and want of necessity to preserve the mother's life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elges““A presumption unless declared by law to be conclusive, may be overcome by other evidence direct or indirect, but unless so overcome, the jury are bound to find according to the presumption.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson
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.