Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Echols v. State (1996), Ruiz v. State (1989)
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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Woodson v. North Carolina · Beck v. Alabama · Roberts v. Louisiana
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits capital murder if: (1) Acting alone or with one or more other persons, he commits or attempts to commit. . . robbery . . . and in the course of and in furtherance of the felony, or in immediate flight therefrom, he or an accomplice causes the death of any person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; . . . (c) Capital murder is punishable by death or life imprisonment without parole ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moss v. State · Hill v. State“... we find no constitutional infirmity in the overlapping of the two sections, because there is no impermissible uncertainty in the definition of the offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. State · Ruiz v. State“Aggravating circumstances are not an element of capital murder as defined in Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1501, and the presence of aggravating circumstances is not necessary to support a conviction under that section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gruzen 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.