Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2018
17 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 385 So. 2d 1298 - Norman v. State · 495 So. 2d 464 - Coates v. State · 402 So. 2d 338 - Shelby v. State · 487 So. 2d 1335 - McCullum v. State · 365 So. 2d 644 - Van Norman 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An indictment for any offense shall not be insufficient for omitting to state the time at which the offense was committed in any case where time is not of the essence of the offense, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offense to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indictment or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened, nor for the want of a proper or perfect venue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in cases of this nature, it is important that a defendant be given the specific date or dates of the alleged acts if at all possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“has raised no credible claim of unfair surprise or prejudice”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gordon v. State · Vickers v. State
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.