Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2016
16 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. Ferrone · Harris v. State · Pierce v. State · 8 Okla. Crim. 130 - Fowler v. State · 90 Okla. Crim. 415 - Moore 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [H]ad the facts been controverted, and had the question been one of close decision, being based upon circumstantial evidence, the improper instruction defining reasonable doubt would have weighed heavily in warranting its reversal for a new trial. Certainly in that instance, that improper instruction coupled with another of equal gravity would have warranted such action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gresham v. State“[tlhe phrase 'reasonable doubt' is self-explanatory and definitions do not clarify its meaning but rather tend to confuse a jury. Instructions defining it are unnecessary and should not be given.”
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.