124 Wis. 2d 628 - State v. Pitsch’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
344 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 344 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 153 Wis. 2d 121 - State v. Johnson (1990), 201 Wis. 2d 303 - State v. Bentley (1996)
344 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 Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Agurs · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Francis v. Franklin · United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal
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 344 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a properly given admonitory instruction [will be] followed.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.