129 Wis. 2d 156 - State v. Heffran’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2006
10 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gault · Williams v. People of State of New York · Estelle v. Smith · Culombe v. Connecticut
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intended to assist the sentencing court in determining the kind and extent of punishment to be imposed in the particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Greve“to the extent that it seeks statements from a defendant on an element upon which the state still has the burden of proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thexton“an intelligent and informed judgment regarding the appropriate penalty under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Greve
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.