152 Wis. 2d 725 - State v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2018
1 federal appellate · 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 124 Wis. 2d 525 - State v. Dyess · 124 Wis. 2d 681 - State v. Wyss · 144 Wis. 2d 388 - State v. Schumacher · 118 Wis. 2d 526 - State v. Lossman · 136 Wis. 2d 92 - State v. Perry
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]viden-tiary privileges . . . interfere with the trial's search for the truth, and must be strictly construed, consistent with the fundamental tenet that the law has the right to every person's evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Larding a final catch-all plea for reversal adds nothing; '[z]ero plus zero equals zero.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) ... In this section: (b) A communication or information is "confidential" if not intended to be disclosed to 3rd persons other than those present to further the interest of the patient.... (2) General rule of privilege. A patient has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing confidential communications made or information obtained or disseminated for purposes of diagnosis or treatment of the patient's physical, mental or emotional condition, among the patient, the patient's physician, the patient's registered nurse, the patient's chiropractor, the patient's psychologist or persons, including members of the patient's family, who are participating in the diagnosis or treatment under the direction of the physician, registered nurse, chiropractor or psychologist.”
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.