Lee v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1961
4 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * where necessary, the duty; devolves upon the court to accompany-the issues with such explanations and' definitions as shall be necessary to enable the jury to perform its function of' fact finding whether the defined word* or explained term be strictly speaking-a technical 'legal’ term or such nonlegal1 word or term as that its use in the charge might confuse or mislead the jury in the absence of a definition or explanation thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be necessary to enable the jury to properly pass upon and render a verdict on such issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kadane v. Clark
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.