State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 227 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 233 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably State v. Benson (1988), State v. Robinson (1994)
4 federal appellate · 227 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. Hutchins · Martell v. United States · State v. Taylor · Arnold Transit Co. v. City of Mackinac Island
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 233 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether a rational jury could conclude that defendant had no significant history of prior criminal activity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walker · State v. Thompson“[i]t is the responsibility of the defendant to go forward with evidence that tends to show the existence of a given mitigating circumstance and to prove its existence to the satisfaction of the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fullwood“been previously convicted of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson
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.