118 Wis. 2d 177 - State v. Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2008
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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · United States v. Hasting · Weatherford v. Bursey · Wardius v. Oregon
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State v. Ruiz, 118 Wis. 2d 177, 202 , 347 N.W.2d 352, 364 (1984). In order to determine whether a new trial is warranted the court must balance a number of factors, including the following: the defendant's interest in being tried on evidence validly before the jury; the public's interest in having the guilty punished; the public's interest in not burdening the administration of justice with undue financial or administrative costs; the public's interest that the judicial process shall both appear fair and be fair in fact; and the interest of the individuals involved —”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The first situation is where the undisclosed evidence shows that the prosecutor's case included perjured testimony and the prosecutor knew or should have known that fact. Such a conviction obtained through perjured testimony is 'fundamentally unfair, and must be set aside if there is any reasonable likelihood that the false testimony could have affected the judgment of the jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]etrying this defendant would be expensive and further congest an already crowded court system. Furthermore, there are obvious practical difficulties in trying the defendant for a murder that occurred nearly four years ago. Finally ... retrial of this case would be traumatic for those innocently affected by this heinous crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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