146 Wis. 2d 198 - State v. Edwardsen’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 216 Wis. 2d 61 - State v. Keith (1997), 177 Wis. 2d 348 - State v. Patino (1993)
25 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 Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Goodwin · United States v. Batchelder
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, the prosecution's comment constituted no more than a pertinent and measured reply to defendant's calling attention to his own failure to testify. As such, the comment did not violate constitutional prohibitions safeguarding defendant's right to remain silent. Id., 146 Wis. 2d at 215 , 430 N.W.2d at 611 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether a prosecutorial comment crosses over 'into the forbidden area of comment on an accused's failure to testify' and 'violates constitutional rights,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doss“one where the new charges were added stemming from the same spree of activity as the original charges”
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.