143 Wis. 2d 216 - State v. Witkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2021
8 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 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles · 87 Wis. 2d 253 - State v. Koller · 122 Wis. 2d 395 - State v. Hopson · 75 Wis. 2d 522 - Murphy v. State · 93 Wis. 2d 215 - Beamon v. State
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.
“If the victim's belief that the defendant was armed was reasonable, that is enough.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the reasonableness of the victim's belief depends on the circumstances of the individual case; and that is true whether the robber makes a verbal representation alone, or whether the representation is accompanied by conduct or other physical evidence that he or she is in fact armed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the evidence, viewed most favorably to the state and the conviction, is so lacking in probative value and force that no trier of fact, acting reasonably, could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Hubanks
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.