State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2011
22 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 24 Utah 2d 255 - State v. Schad · 10 Utah 2d 162 - State v. Danks · 18 Utah 2d 292 - State v. Canfield · State v. Mills · 23 Utah 2d 18 - State v. Mecham
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are obliged to assume that the jury believed those aspects of the evidence, and drew those inferences that reasonably could be drawn therefrom, in the light most favorable to the verdict. In order for the defendant to successfully challenge and overturn a verdict on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence, it must appear that upon so viewing the evidence reasonable minds must necessarily entertain a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“on the same footing as other so-called defenses... such as, e.g., entrapment, self-defense, lack of mental capacity, or of criminal intent”
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.