Wilkey v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 1988 · most notably Daniels v. State (1943), Robinson v. State (1943)
38 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 Gunning v. Cooley · Liverpool, New York & Philadelphia Steamship Co. v. Commissioners of Emigration · Oscanyan v. Arms Co. · Best v. District of Columbia · Richmond Co v. Powers
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Admissions by counsel, made in good faith at the trial of an action in open court for the purpose of dispensing with testimony, bind their clients. * * * But such admissions, in order to bind a client, must be distinct and formal, and made for the express purpose of dispensing with formal proof of a fact at the trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“the intention . . . to make an admission which would be accepted by the court as conclusive of his defense to preclude the introduction of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State“[t]he opening statement of counsel . . . is not evidence and does not necessarily contain all or even a major part of [a party's] case.”
1 later decision 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.