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← 268 A2D 484 - Wilson v. State

Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1970

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 2010
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2010

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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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 Boykin v. Alabama · McCarthy v. United States · Halliday v. United States · Commonwealth v. McCan · Commonwealth v. Wakelin

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““The attorney for the State may with written leave of the court file a written dismissal of an indictment, information or complaint, setting forth the reasons for the dismissal and the prosecution shall thereupon terminate.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “At common law an unlawful touching of the person of another, unpermitted and unprivileged, done with the intention of bringing about a harmful or offensive contact, constituted an assault and battery.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. ““ . . . the authority to nolle prosequi included the authority in proper situations to terminate a part of the State’s charge leaving a lesser charge remaining to be prosecuted.””
    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.