Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2008
19 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 Gore v. State · Seymour v. State · Daniel v. State · Watson v. State · Hardin 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Resistance by armed force of an attempt by the defendant to commit robbery upon Lewis would be justifiable ... and the defendants could not claim self-defense in defending themselves____In an alleged situation requiring the killing of another in self-defense, one cannot create an emergency which renders it necessary for another to defend himself and then take advantage of the effort of such other person to do so____There is no merit in this ground.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is the duty of the trial court to charge the contentions of the parties where supported by evidence; and although in a criminal case it is proper to charge as to the contentions of the defendant without request, it is not required when the same are supported only by the defendant's statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler 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.