142 Wis. 2d 821 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 state decisions

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.

1. “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 148 Wis. 2d 370 - State v. Schultz · State v. Spaeth

2. “the admission in evidence, over objection, of [a] coerced confession vitiates the judgment because it violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Lynumn v. Illinois, 372 U.S. 528, 537 , (1963) quoting Payne v. Arkansas, 356 U.S. 560, 568 (1958). In Thompson , we also quoted Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385, 398 (1978) as follows: [A]ny criminal trial use against the defendant of his involuntary statement is a denial of due process of law”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 146 Wis. 2d 116 - State v. Childs

3. “In those cases, the ends of the exclusionary rules were thought adequately implemented by denying the government the use of the challenged evidence to make out its case in chief. The incremental furthering of those ends by forbidding impeachment of the defendant who testifies was deemed insufficient to permit or require that false testimony go unchallenged, with the resulting impairment of the integrity of the factfinding goals of the criminal trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 148 Wis. 2d 370 - State v. Schultz