147 Wis. 2d 429 - State v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 219 Wis. 2d 615 - State Ex Rel. Warren v. Schwarz (1998), State v. Black (2001)
46 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Brower v. United States · 49 Wis. 2d 263 - McCleary v. State · 107 Wis. 2d 400 - Loy v. Bunderson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“And the defendant has the burden of showing, by clear and convincing evidence, that 'the withdrawal of the plea is necessary to correct a manifest injustice.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“examined the facts and stated its reasons for the sentence imposed, `using a demonstrated rational process.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“indicates that a sufficient factual basis was established at the plea proceeding to substantially negate [the] defendant's claim of innocence.”
2 later decisions 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.