Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 124 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Reed v. State (1978), Radman v. Harold (1977)
3 federal appellate · 124 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 Chateaugay Ore & Iron Co. v. Blake · Coblentz v. State · Berger v. State · The People v. Popescue · State v. Adams
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence of declarations and acts, which are an immediate accompaniment of the act charged and so closely connected with the main fact as to constitute a part of it, and without which the main fact might not be properly understood, are admissible as a part of the res gestae. * * * Whether such a declaration or act is an immediate accompaniment is tested, not by the closeness of time, but by casual [causal] connection.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The law of evidence does not require that an instrument, found at or near the place of an arrest, must be positively identified as the instrument used in the commission of the crime, before it may be used in evidence; A lack of positive identification of an instrument of crime affects the weight of the evidence rather than its admissibility. If a question is raised as to the connection of certain articles with the crime, the evidence should be submitted for the determination of the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. State“To qualify as an expert, a witness should have such special knowledge of the subject about which he is to testify thát he can give the jury assistance and guidance in solving a problem for which their equipment of average knowledge is inadequate. It is sufficient if the court is satisfied that the expert has in some way gained such experience in the matter as to entitle his evidence to credit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.