Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2015
10 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 Boston Firefighters Union, Local 718 v. Boston Chapter, NAACP · Thomas v. State · State v. Marley · Williams v. State · Graham 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm; (2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and (3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banks v. State“Appellants’ motion to dismiss said: Section 4.30 of the Texas Education Code and the charging instrument are imper-missibly vague and overbroad and, as such, violate defendant’s constitutional rights as articulated in the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arnold 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.