State v. . Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 1978
16 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the jury returned to the courtroom to render their verdict, the record discloses that the following occurred: The CleeK: Gentlemen, have you agreed on your verdict? Jueoe: We have. The CleeK: What is your verdict on the first count? Jueoe: Not Guilty. The Clere: What is your verdict on the second count? Jueoe: Guilty of an assault on a female. The Court: Gentlemen, the Court cannot accept this verdict. It is not rendered in accordance with the instructions the Court has given you. As the Court has heretofore explained to you, as to the first count in the bill of indictment, the jury may return one of three possible verdicts, namely, a verdict of guilty of an assault with intent to commit rape, or a verdict of guilty of an assault on a female, or a verdict of not guilty, and that as to the second count in the bill of indictment, which is the charge that the defendant had sexual intercourse with a female child over 12 years of age and under 16 years of age, who had not previously had sexual intercourse with any person, the jury may return one of two possible verdicts, namely, a verdict of guilty or a verdict of not guilty. You may retire to your jury room and deliberate further as to your verdict. “After deliberating for 30 minutes or more, the jury returned again to the courtroom, when the following occurred: The Clere: Gentlemen, have you agreed on your verdict? Juror: We have. The ClerK: What is your verdict as to the first count? Jueoe: Guilty. The Court: Guilty of wh”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis 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.