167 Wis. 2d 749 - State v. Borrell’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 201 Wis. 2d 303 - State v. Bentley (1996), State v. Gallion (2004)
114 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Solem v. Helm · Mistretta v. United States · Harmelin v. Michigan · Enmund v. Florida
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Past record of criminal offenses; (2) history of undesirable behavior pattern; (3) the defendant's personality, character and social traits; (4) result of presentence investigation; (5) vicious or aggravated nature of the crime; (6) degree of the defendant's culpability; (7) defendant's demeanor at trial; (8) defendant's age, educational background and employment record; (9) defendant's remorse, repentance and cooperativeness; (10) defendant's need for close rehabilitative control; (11) the rights of the public; and (12) the length of pretrial detention.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must show some unreasonable or unjustified basis in the record for the sentence imposed.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Fritz · State v. Taylor“'generally afforded a strong presumption of reason-ability because the circuit court is best suited to consider the relevant factors and demeanor of the con victed defendant.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.