State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2003
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It takes more than mere suspicion to send a man to prison, for a felony in Idaho there must be substantial evidence, either direct and positive, or circumstantial. Circumstantial evidence must be not only consistent and compatible with the guilt of an accused, but it must also be inconsistent with any reasonable theory of his innocence." (Emphasis added.) State v. Wilson, 62 Idaho 282, 284 , 111 P.2d 868, 868 (1941).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Erwin“chiefly the merest suspicion, not worthy to enter the classification of circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Erwin
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.