38 Wash. 2d 593 - State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 54 Cal. 2d 621 - People v. Gould (1960), 47 Cal. 2d 362 - People v. Abbott (1956)
59 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 People v. Jennings · People v. . Roach · Hines v. Commonwealth · State v. Whitfield · State v. Bolen
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wigmore points out that identification of an accused in the courtroom (judicial identification) is of little testimonial force, as, after all that has intervened, it would seldom happen that the witness would not have come to believe in the accused's identity; and that it is entirely proper to corroborate the witness by proving that at a prior time, when suggestions of others could not have intervened to create a fancied recognition in the mind of the witness, he had recognized and declared the present accused to be the guilty person (an extrajudicial identification).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The better rule is that approved by Wigmore, i.e., that whether or not there actually exists any reason for fear that induces flight, a defendant should have the right to explain the reason for his fear and his flight. That the explanation is fantastic, as the state here contends, is beside the point; the reasonableness of the defendant’s explanation is for the jury in determining the weight to be attached to the circumstances of his flight.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duran v. People“Finally, from the facts heretofore set forth in this opinion, it. is. manifest that there is no probability that the testimony of Eva Adams would have changed the result. The fingerprint identification of Utah [Wilson] is the most certain known to the law.”
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.