State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Ketterer (2006), State v. Fitzpatrick (2004)
11 federal appellate · 131 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Tollett v. Henderson
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if the statutes prohibit identical activity, require identical proof, and yet impose different penalties, then sentencing a person under the statute with the higher penalty violates the Equal Protection Clause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the [S]tate proves that an occupied structure is a permanent dwelling house which is regularly inhabited, that the occupying family was in and out on the day in question, and that such house was burglarized when the family was temporarily absent, the [S]tate has presented sufficient evidence to support a charge of [ ] burglary * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lehman · State v. Miller“(4) At the time, any person is present or likely to be present in it.”
2 later decisions 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.