Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2025
18 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 Roberts v. State · Danforth v. State · Carter v. State · Flanagan v. State · Carr 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The act itself may be so utterly senseless and abnormal as to furnish satisfactory proof of a diseased mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State“a doubt on the whole showing, including the question of insanity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grace v. Hopper
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.