119 Wis. 2d 837 - State v. Serebin’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 129 Wis. 2d 239 - State v. Williquette (1986), 184 Wis. 2d 423 - State v. Oimen (1994)
31 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 Mills v. Alabama · 81 Wis. 2d 205 - First National Leasing Corp. v. City of Madison · 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles · 28 Wis. 2d 412 - Gauthier v. State · 45 Wis. 2d 147 - Cramer v. Theda Clark Memorial Hospital
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a factor actually operating and which ha[s] substantial effect in producing the death as a natural result,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the proximate, primary, efficient, or legal cause of such harmful result,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This court must affirm if it finds that the jury, acting reasonably, could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The function of weighing the credibility of witnesses is exclusively in the jury’s province, and the jury verdict will be overturned only if, viewing the evidence most favorably to the state and the conviction, it is inherently or patently incredible, or so lacking in probative value that no jury could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. ”... [W]e will not substitute our judgment for that of the jury unless, under all the evidence presented, the jury could not have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.