147 Wis. 2d 806 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2025
18 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 80 Wis. 2d 122 - State v. Mendoza · 61 Wis. 2d 160 - Ross v. State · 141 Wis. 2d 302 - State v. Gomaz · 53 Wis. 2d 483 - Thomas 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither the trial court nor the reviewing court may weigh the evidence, but instead may only ask whether a reasonable construction of the evidence, viewed favorably to the defendant, supports the alleged defense. If this question is answered affirmatively, then it is for the jury, not the trial court or [the appellate] court, to determine whether to believe defendant's version of the events.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to . . . intentionally use force against another for the purpose of preventing or terminating what he [or she] reasonably believes to be an unlawful interference with his [or her] person by such other person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person is privileged to defend a third person from real or apparent unlawful interference by another under the same conditions and by the same means as those under and by which the person is privileged to defend himself or herself from real or apparent unlawful interference, provided that the person reasonably believes that the facts are such that the third person would be privileged to act in self-defense and that the person's intervention is necessary for the protection of the third person.”
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.