Wilkerson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
October 2016
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 9th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Furman v. Georgia · Harmelin v. Michigan · Woodson v. North Carolina · Graham v. Florida · Geesa v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The powers of the Government of the State of Texas shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy, to wit: Those which are Legislative to one; those which are Executive to another, and those which are Judicial to another; and no person, or collection of persons, being of one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly attached to either of the others, except in the instances herein expressly permitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.