Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 282 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Geesa v. State (1991), Harris v. State (1989)
2 federal appellate · 280 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 Hankins v. State
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 282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Circumstantial evidence should not be tested by an ultimate “standard for review” different from direct evidence; the standard in both kinds of cases is whether any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt [Emphasis in the original].”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Shipley v. State · Mattias v. State“Logic dictates that if there is a “reasonable hypothesis” other than the guilt of the accused, then it cannot be said that the guilt has been shown “beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.