State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 1993
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ratcliff v. Bruce · State v. Lyle · State v. Anderson · State v. Rivers
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Lyle court emphasized that evidence of other crimes must be strictly scrutinized before its admission since ‘the inevitable tendency of such evidence is to raise a legally spurious presumption of guilt in the minds of the jurors.’ Lyle at 125 S. C. 412, 118 S. E. at 807 . If there is any doubt as to the connection between the acts, the accused is to be given the benefit of the doubt and the evidence should not be admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. DuBose
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.