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← 135 Wis. 2d 453 - State v. Johnson

135 Wis. 2d 453 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
July 2010
most recently cited

17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2010

17 state decisions

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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 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles · 75 Wis. 2d 575 - State v. Olson · 76 Wis. 2d 1 - Turner v. State · 84 Wis. 2d 370 - State v. Williamson · 87 Wis. 2d 253 - State v. Koller

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that her injury resulted from an accident. Id. at 459-61 . ¶ 7. The case before us involves issues similar to those in the Johnson case because both are child victim cases. In Johnson , we noted that the harm often occurs when the child is in the exclusive control of a parent. Id. at 457. Usually the child is too young or too intimidated to testify as to what happened and is easily manipulated on cross-examination. Id. at 457-58 . That a child does not survive strengthens, rather than diminishes, the law's concern for the special problems of prosecuting a defendant in a”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Second-degree murder. Whoever causes the death of another human being by conduct imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, may be imprisoned not less than 5 nor more than 25 years.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “if any possibility exists that the jury could have drawn the appropriate inferences from the evidence adduced at trial to find the requisite guilt.”
    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.