Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 1979
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Shackelford v. State · Wilson v. State · Thomas v. State · 165 Ind. App. 664 - Abel v. State · Brown 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person who kills with purpose and malice, but without premediation, has still killed intentionally and without justification or excuse. While the statute permits the trier to find that the offense was substantially less reprehensible and the act less likely to be repeated than other homicides, the statute also permits the trier to find the act of such a quality and so likely to be repeated that this defendant should be punished and confined during his life, just as he would have been punished and confined if his act were the result of premediation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baum 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.