Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably 15 N.J. Super. 139 - Mayflower Industries v. Thor Corp. (1951), State v. DiPaolo (1961)
26 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 The People v. . Rogers · State v. Johnson · Hanvey v. State · Marshall v. State · State v. Tatro
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the character and extent of a crime is made by law to depend upon the state and condition of the defendant’s mind at the time, and with reference to the act done, intoxication, as a circumstance affecting such condition and state of the mind, is a proper subject for inquiry and consideration by the jury. If by law, deliberation and premeditation are essential elements of the crime, and by reason of drunkenness or any other cause, it appears that the prisoner’s mental state is such that he is incapable of such deliberation and premeditation, then the crime has not been committed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Roach · State v. DiPaolo“You should carefully discriminate between that excitable condition of the mind produced by drink, which is not incapable of forming an intent, but determines to act on a slight provocation, and such prostration of the faculties by intoxication as puts the accused in such a state that he is incapable of forming an intention from which he shall act. [Id. at 352.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cameron““Intoxication is a mere circumstance to be considered in determining whether premeditation was present or absent.” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. King
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.