118 Wis. 2d 472 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably 174 Wis. 2d 255 - State v. Pittman (1993), 227 Wis. 2d 167 - State v. Watson (1999)
36 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Telfaire · 105 Wis. 2d 231 - State v. Clausen · 100 Wis. 2d 452 - Hagenkord v. State · 84 Wis. 2d 370 - State v. Williamson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the essential ingredients of due process in a criminal trial is the right to a fair opportunity’ to defend against the State's accusations. ... A corollary to this principle is the right to present relevant and competent evidence. ... Important as these rights are, they are not absolute. They may bow to other legitimate state interests in the criminal trial process. These competing state interests, however, must be substantial to overcome the claim of the accused. ... Thus a trial court's decision on a procedural issue at trial may nominally be labeled discretionary, hut the court's authority may not be exercised until it accommodates the accused's due process rights to present a defense. Without a compelling state interest, the court's ruling may not interfere with the accused's opportunity to present crucial evidence to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. St. George“One of the essential ingredients of due process in a criminal trial is the right to a fair opportunity to defend against the State's accusations. A corollary to this principle is the right to present relevant and competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jensen“reverse unless the [trial court's] use of discretion is wholly unreasonable.”
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.