Stillman E. Wilbur, Jr. v. Garrell S. Mullaney’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.2d 1303 · 1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Mullaney v. Wilbur (1975), Engle v. Isaac (1982)
12 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Barnes v. United States · Memorial Hospital v. Maricopa County
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Placing the burden on a defendant to reduce murder to manslaughter may be sound public policy if the state’s purpose is to facilitate convictions for murder, but Winship teaches that it is constitutionally improper to facilitate convictions at the cost of imposing a burden of proof upon the defendant. The burden of proof must be on the state throughout; not sometimes on the state, and sometimes on the defendant, (emphasis ours).”
1 later decision 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.