State v. Wolcott’s Empirical Analysis
1851
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Edwin Hale v. William Henkel (1906), State v. Taylor (1965)
24 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts frequently do and ought to advise caution in reposing confidence in the naked testimony of an accomplice; but this is rather in the exercise of a proper judicial discretion, than because the law demands it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The degree of credit which is due to an accomplice, is a matter exclusively for the jury to say.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.