140 Tex. Crim. 424 - Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2015
23 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 66 Tex. Crim. 489 - Chapman v. State · 85 Tex. Crim. 556 - Newman 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When there is evidence, viewed from the accused’s standpoint, that he was in danger of an unlawful attack or a threatened attack at the hands of more than one assailant, the court should instruct the jury that he had a right to defend himself against either or both of them. In support of the views herein expressed we refer to the following cases : Petty v. State, 126 Tex.Cr.R. 185 , 70 S.W.2d 718 ; Smart v. State, Tex.Cr. App., 146 S.W.2d 397 , opinion delivered Dec. 4, 1940.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCuin 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.