150 Wis. 2d 374 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2008
15 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Barber v. Page · Estes v. Texas · Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk · Coy v. Iowa
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e can conclude . . . that exceptions to 'face-to-face' confrontation . . . may be recognized when there are case-specific and witness-specific findings of necessity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“I think the circuit court’s reasoning in this ease was, for the most part, based on the kind of presumptions and generalizations the Coy majority struck down as inadequate. The fact that the generalizations and presumptions relied on in this ease are set forth by a judge rather than by a legislature, as was the case in Coy , does not change the fact that they are not the kind of individualized findings required by the holding in Coy . I do, however, conclude that the state’s motion papers and the transcript of the preliminary examination can support the circuit court’s discretionary determination that this particular child could not give effective testimony if she had to testify facing the defendant in the courtroom ... I agree with the majority opinion that this court can, in this case, supply the circuit court’s omission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Murphy“the duty of an appellate court to support the exercise of discretion whenever the facts of record supply an ab initio discretionary determination supporting the decision of the trial judge.”
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.