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← 71 MISS 880 - Wilson v. State

Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1894

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2016

8 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the testimony of an accomplice in crime should be received with the utmost caution, and the jury may wholly disbelieve such testimony altogether.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 560 So. 2d 171 - Wheeler v. State
  2. “should weigh the testimony of an accomplice with great care and caution”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 560 So. 2d 171 - Wheeler v. State
  3. “this was all the defendant was entitled to.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 560 So. 2d 171 - Wheeler 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.