State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2003
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Cain v. Skillin · Reed v. Commonwealth · State v. Gifford · State v. Wilson · Roberts v. People
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.
“"The admission of this testimony was especially important to the appellant, and for that reason its rejection was especially prejudicial to him. For if the homicide was justifiable because Glenn struck in self-defense, no crime was committed, and Glenn was guilty of none. Necessarily, the appellant, who the state charges aided and abetted Glenn, could be guilty of no crime in so doing. There is no question in law or logic on this point. See State v. Clarence Wilson, supra, 17 N.W.2d 138, 142 , and authorities cited; State v. Phillips, 24 Mo. 475 ; Pizana v. State, 81 Tex.Cr.R. 81 , 193 S.W. 671, 672 ; 29 C.J. 1072, § 44; 40 C.J.S. Homicide, § 9; Harper v. State, 83 Misc. 402 , 35 So. 572 ; Davis v. State, 107 Tex.Cr.R. 315 , 296 S.W. 895, 896 . In State v. Leeper, 199 Iowa 432, 442, 443 , 200 N.W. 732, 736 , the defendant was tried for aiding and abetting Mrs. Wertz to commit the murder. In reversing a judgment of conviction, the court said: `She testified that she fired the fatal shot. The court correctly instructed, in substance, that, if the jury found that Mrs. Wertz killed the deceased, it must be further established beyond a reasonable doubt that she did not do so in justifiable self-defense, before the appellant could be convicted as an aider and abettor. ' (Italics ours.) "If there should be a retrial of this case, and the jury should find that Glenn Wilson killed the deceased in self-defense, it would be the duty of the jury to acquit this appellant. "The fact that s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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