State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 1998 · most notably State v. Childers (1977), State v. Hill (1987)
42 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 State v. Blocker · State v. Robinson · State v. Warbritton · State v. Jensen · State v. Weyer
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he unlawful killing of a human being, without malice, which is done unintentionally in the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to felony, or in the commission of a lawful act in an unlawful or wanton manner. . . .” K. S. A. 21-3404.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Admissibility of physical evidence is within the sound discretion of the court and is to be determined by the court on the basis of its relevance and connection with the accused and the crime charged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Maliciously means wilfully doing a wrongful act without just cause or excuse. It requires the absence of any circumstance of justification, mitigation or excuse.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cobb · State v. Childers
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.