State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Muhammad (2002), State v. Tracy (2005)
52 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 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · State v. Finley · State v. Hatfield · State v. Long · State v. Azure
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ (1) ] that when a sentencing statute ... is repealed between the date a defendant commits the underlying offenses and is sentenced; and (2) where the effect of the repeal lessens or ameliorates the defendant's punishment; and (3) where the repealer contains no savings clause; the defendant is entitled to be sentenced according to the sentencing statute in effect on the date of sentencing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morris · State v. Thomas“repeal of any law creating a criminal offense does not constitute a bar to ... punishment of an act already committed in violation of the law so repealed unless the intention to bar such ... punishment is expressly declared in the repealing act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morris · State v. Thomas“[a]lthough Estrada discusses the effects of an amended statute which mitigates punishment, its reasoning also applies to a repealed statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morris · State v. Thomas
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.