Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
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
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.
““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 passagee.g. Bessey v. State“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““ . . . 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 passagee.g. Bessey 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.