Wilson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 299 · 1952
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably State v. Harmon (1986), Cooke v. United States (1960)
22 federal appellate · 43 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.
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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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s between an interpretation that will effectuate the obvious intent of our statute and one that will largely frustrate that intent, we unhesitating adopt the former. To rule that the weapon must be on the person would make possible the carrying of a deadly weapon concealed on the seat of an automobile, where it would be more readily accessible than it would be if concealed on the person. No such result is contemplated or permitted by the statute. [Id]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in such proximity to ... [him] as to be convenient of access and within reach.”
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.