111 Wis. 2d 280 - State v. Bernal’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2009
2 federal appellate · 20 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 93 Wis. 2d 278 - Elias v. State · 60 Wis. 2d 404 - State v. Weso · 76 Wis. 2d 30 - Wagner v. State · 76 Wis. 2d 277 - Cunningham v. State · 44 Wis. 2d 68 - State v. Dolan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is entitled to an instruction on a valid applicable theory of defense if it is timely requested and is supported by credible evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]ntentiona!ly pointing a loaded gun ready to shoot at another person is conduct imminently dangerous to another. Unless it is privileged or otherwise defensible, the act evinces a depraved mind, regardless of human life, whether the person holding the weapon intends to frighten, intimidate or stop the other person and does not intend to shoot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Miller“Second-degree murder. Whoever causes the death of another human being under either of the following circumstances is guilty of a Class B felony: (1) By conduct imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life; or (2) As a natural and probable consequence of the commission of or attempt to commit a felony.”
1 later decision 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.