Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 205 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 3 Ill. 2d 437 - People v. Morris (1954), Magley v. State (1975)
3 federal appellate · 205 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Knox County Council v. State Ex Rel. McCormick · State Ex Rel. White v. Hilgemann, Judge · Sanchez 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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The easy course would have been to examine the motion for new trial and, having found that the errors relied upon are not mentioned therein, to have affirmed the judgment.... But in a case involving an appellant's life or liberty we may not ignore prejudicial errors affecting his constitutional rights.... The procedural rules that would prevent their consideration must give way to the fundamental principles of due process.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“No good would result from setting forth the many minor errors with which appellants' lawyer is charged of having been guilty. It is sufficient to say that they did not approach anything that would permit the conclusion that `there has been such a lack of representation as to be equivalent to or worse than no representation whatsoever.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blue v. State · Stice v. State““. . . Nor need we now draw a line, if there is one, between competency and incompetency. The spirit of these constitutional provisions requires that an accused must have something more than a perfunctory presentation. It is true whether the attorney is appointed by the court or engaged by the accused.””
3 later decisions 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.