Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably Commonwealth v. Redline (1958), Commonwealth Ex Rel. Smith v. Myers (1970)
37 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Clark v. State · Ringer v. State · Commonwealth v. Moore · 41 Tex. Crim. 564 - Taylor v. State · Gill 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he robbers compelled [the teller], over his objections and against his will, to accompany them from a place of safety, so far as outsiders were concerned, to a place known by them to be a place of danger from those on the outside. They knew that they had been discovered and apprehended danger from the outside, else they would not have taken [the teller] with them. They wished to use him as a breastwork, as it were, or they thought perhaps the outsiders would not shoot at them for fear of killing [the teller]. In doing this they ... caused [his] death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * ‘In order that one may be guilty of homicide, the act must be done by him actually or constructively, and that cannot be, unless the crime be committed by his own hand, or by the hands of some one acting in concert with him, or in furtherance of a common object or purpose.’””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garner · Johnson v. State“[The robber’s] action in forcing [the teller] to a place which was known by [the robber] to be perilous was just as much the cause of [the teller’s] death as if [the robber] had himself fired the fatal shot.” [Id.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garner · Jackson 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.