Wilson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably Reynolds v. Commonwealth (1953), Jenkins v. Commonwealth (1972)
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 Davenport v. Commonwealth · Frazier v. Commonwealth · Clark v. Commonwealth · Shaw v. Commonwealth · Wheeler v. Commonwealth
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such an instruction is not warranted except where the defendant admits the commission of the act charged against him but seeks to excuse or justify its commission so that the criminal element is extracted and the legal responsibility for the act is avoided.””
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.