State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t is immaterial whether the court characterized the evidence which it described as direct or positive inasmuch as he properly defined the elements thereof. * * * [T]hese two types of evidence are frequently referred to as identical and we find no prejudicial error whatsoever in the language employed in the charge”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Platt, Unpublished Decision (2-22-2005)