108 Wis. 2d 112 - State v. Outlaw’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 135 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Friedrich (1987), State v. Green (2002)
45 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 Roviaro v. United States · 21 Wis. 2d 119 - Stelloh v. Liban · United States v. Eddings
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Exceptions. (b) Testimony on merits. If it appears from the evidence in the case or from other showing by a party that an informer may be able to give testimony necessary to a fair determination of the issue of guilt or innocence in a criminal case . .. and ... a state ... invokes the privilege, the judge shall give the ... state... an opportunity to show in camera facts relevant to determining whether the informer can, in fact, supply that testimony.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here the disclosure of an informer's identity, or of the contents of his communication, is relevant and helpful to the defense of an accused, or is essential to a fair determination of a cause, the privilege [to withhold the identity of an informant] must give way.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“necessary to support the theory of the defense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.