State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1977
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 State v. Wagner · State v. Bond · State v. McCarver · State v. Hecox · State v. Tutt
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.
““Every person who shall be convicted of breaking into and entering tbe dwelling bouse of another, in which there shall be at tbe time some human being, with intent to commit some felony or any larceny therein, either: First, by forcibly bursting or breaking tbe wall or outer door, window or shutter of a window of such bouse, or the lock or bolt of suck door, or the fastening of such window or shutter; or, second, by breaking in any other manner, being armed with some dangerous weapon, or with the assistance and aid of one or more confederates, then actually present, aiding and assisting; or third, by unlocking an outer door by means of false keys, or by picking the lock thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of burglary in the first degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Young
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.