119 Wis. 2d 676 - State v. Gustafson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 144 Wis. 2d 388 - State v. Schumacher (1988), State v. Derango (2000)
27 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 Harrington v. California · Fahy v. Connecticut · 57 Wis. 2d 344 - Wold v. State · Thomas v. United States · 101 Wis. 2d 441 - State v. Baldwin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an area of law that continues to create confusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1).... (b) The disposition of a child, and any record of evidence given in a hearing in court, shall not be admissible as evidence against the child in any case or proceeding in any other court except: 1. In sentencing proceedings ... and then only for the purpose of a presentence study and report; 2. In a proceeding in any court assigned to exercise jurisdiction under this chapter; or 3. In a court of civil or criminal jurisdiction while it is exercising the jurisdiction of a family court and is considering the custody of children. 4. The fact that a child has been adjudged delinquent on the basis of unlawfully and intentionally killing a person is admissible for the purpose of [the intestate succession statute]. (2) Except as specifically provided in sub. (1), this section does not preclude the court from disclosing information to qualified persons if the court considers the disclosure to be in the best interests of the child or of the administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a defendant is convicted in a way inconsistent with the fairness and integrity of judicial proceedings, then the courts should invoke the plain-error rule in order to protect their own public reputation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.