Wilson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.2d 492 · 1959
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably United States v. Benn (1972), Kogan v. People (1988)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Kelly v. United States · Brown v. United States · Benton v. United States · Jones v. United States
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... As a consequence most courts show an admirable reluctance to accept the unsubstantiated testimony of children in sexual crimes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The complaining witness in the Kelly case was a policeman. A woman's uncorroborated tale of a sex offense is not more reliable than a man's. A young child's is far less reliable.... "... As a consequence most courts show an admirable reluctance to accept the unsubstantiated testimony of children in sexual crimes." ... [ Wilson v. United States, supra at 226-27, 271 F.2d at 492 -93 quoting Guttmacher and Weihofen Psychiatry and the Law (1952), p. 374.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re L. A. G. · Matter of LAG“The [homosexual solicitation] case before us lies in a field in which our courts have traditionally been unusually skeptical toward the accusation. This has been true of all the so-called sex-offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.