Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012 · most notably Gregg v. Georgia (1976), Tichnell v. State (1980)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Giles v. State · Hall v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary · Linkins v. State · Slansky v. State · Bennett 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In every case in which instructions are given to the jury the court shall instruct the jury that they are the judges of the law and that the court's instructions are advisory only."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tichnell v. State“not bound to abide by the interpretation of the court of the meaning of a law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillon v. State“free to construe and apply it according to their own judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillon 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.