Wilson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Johnson v. Commonwealth (2000), Wilson v. Greene (1998)
6 federal appellate · 40 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 Soberon v. United States · Simmons v. South Carolina · Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Scherl v. Fisher · Hebert v. Brown
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The specific intent to commit [a crime] may be inferred from the conduct of the accused if such intent flows naturally from the conduct proven. Where the conduct of the accused under the circumstances involved points with reasonable certainty to a specific intent to commit [the crime], the intent element is established.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Kenny, why you doing this to me? I go with Pinkey [Altomika's father], why you doing this to me?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Greene“was influenced by passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mu'Min v. Pruett
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.