State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Hall (1990), State v. Nunn (1989)
2 district · 50 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. Jackson · State v. Minor · State v. Howell & Taylor
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen pattern jury instructions are appropriate, a trial court should use them unless there is some compelling and articulable reason not to do so.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n information which omits one or more of the essential elements of the crime it attempts to charge is jurisdictionally and fatally defective and a conviction of that offense must be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.