Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Wilson v. Sellers (2018), Gissendaner v. State (2000)
7 federal appellate · 48 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chambers v. Mississippi · Irvin v. Dowd · Green v. Georgia
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hole in the back of his head. His skull was filled with metal shotgun pellets and a spent shot shell cup. After officers arrested Wilson, he told the officers that after Parks got in the automobile, Butts pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and ordered Parks to drive around. Id. According to Wilson, Butts later told Parks to exit the automobile and lie on the ground, after which Butts shot Parks in the back of the head. Id. Wilson and Butts drove Parks's automobile to Atlanta in an attempt to locate a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of malice murder, felony murder, armed robbery, hijacking a motor vehicle, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of a sawed-off shotgun,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sawed-off shotgun loaded with the type of ammunition used to kill Parks”
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.