111 Wis. 2d 380 - State v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 154 Wis. 2d 116 - State v. McQuay (1990), In re Carter (2004)
33 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Estelle v. Smith · 27 Wis. 2d 623 - State v. Strickland · Jones v. Cardwell · 47 Wis. 2d 330 - Neely 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[PJresentence reports are designed to gather information concerning a defendant's personality, social circumstances and general pattern of behavior, so that the judge can make an informed sentencing decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[h]ighly relevant, if not essential, to [the court's] selection of an appropriate sentence is the possession of the fullest information possible concerning the defendant's life and characteristics”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the Supreme Court expressly declined to decide whether its fifth amendment discussion extended to 'all types of interviews and examinations that might be ordered or relied upon to inform a sentencing determination.'”
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.