State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Williams (1988), State v. Clausell (1990)
2 district · 59 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 Griffin v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Edmonds v. United States · Simler v. Conner · State v. Johnson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not every departure from the facts and reasonable inferences necessarily calls for a reversal, and "on the question whether the improper comment shall have that effect, the making by trial counsel of a timely and proper objection and the action of the trial judge in connection therewith are ordinarily controlling considerations." [ State v. Wilson, 57 N.J. 39, 50-51 , 269 A. 2d 153 (1970) (quoting State v. Vaszorich, 13 N.J. 99, 119 , 98 A. 2d 299 (1953)).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a timely objection signifies that the defense believes itself to have been prejudiced by the prosecutor's remarks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the atmosphere of the trial the defense did not believe that the prosecutor's [comments] were prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.