159 Wis. 2d 494 - State v. Rachwal’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 219 Wis. 2d 615 - State Ex Rel. Warren v. Schwarz (1998), 170 Wis. 2d 130 - State v. Perez (1992)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 McCarthy v. United States · State v. Reppin · Harrigan v. Gilchrist · 119 Wis. 2d 664 - State v. Wittrock · Matter of Colson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in Illinois and that the State could prove he was a persistent repeater. 5 And in most cases, an admission of the prior convictions would be sufficient to establish that a defendant is a persistent repeater under Wis. Stat. § 939.62 (2m) and for the circuit court to sentence him or her accordingly. As the State notes, a no contest plea to a charge containing a persistent repeater allegation is an admission to all the material facts alleged in the charging document so long as the”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“expressly recognized that a guilty plea may not constitute an admission if the judge fails to conduct the proper questioning so as to ascertain the meaning and potential consequences of such a plea.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“approach [ed] the absolute bare minimum necessary for a valid admission.”
3 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.