Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2023
23 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 Gerstein v. Pugh · Costello v. United States · Coleman v. Alabama · Romano v. United States · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T Ihe true constitution, al purpose of the preliminary hearing ... is to obtain a determination by a neutral, detached fact finder that there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed and that the defendant committed it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Carter · Rathbun v. State““ * * * A preliminary hearing is not designed to be a dress rehearsal for trial. Its only purpose is to determine whether there is a sound basis for continuing to hold the accused in custody, to make sure that he is not being held on some capricious or nebulous charge.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. State“[t]he only purpose of a preliminary hearing is to determine if probable cause exists to believe that an offense has been committed and that the defendant charged has committed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cardenas v. State
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.