State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably State v. Potter (1978), State v. Jolly (1979)
60 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 State v. Irick · State v. Henderson · State v. Taylor · State v. Bell · State v. Britt
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the only testimony justifying submission of the case to the jury is inherently incredible and in conflict with the ... State's own evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The trial judge is not required to instruct the jury that upon conviction a sentence of life imprisonment will be imposed. See State v. Irick, 291 N.C. 480 , 231 S.E. 2d 833 (1977); State v. McMorris, supra; State v. Rhodes, supra. Such an instruction may be given or withheld in his discretion and the exercise of that discretion will not, absent abuse, be disturbed on appeal. State v. Bumper, 275 N.C. 670 , 170 S.E. 2d 457 (1969); Welch v. Kearns, 261 N.C. 171 , 134 S.E. 2d 155 (1964).” (Emphasis original.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Potter“G.S.15A-974 [ (a) ](1) ... mandates the suppression of evidence only when the evidence sought to be suppressed is obtained in violation of defendant's constitutional rights.”
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.