168 Wis. 2d 915 - State v. Comstock’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 201 Wis. 2d 337 - State v. Petty (1996), 208 Wis. 2d 463 - State v. McCallum (1997)
49 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 Santobello v. New York · Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Arizona v. Washington
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A circuit court has the power to accept or reject a plea agreement reducing or amending charges; it should consider the public interest in making its decision about the plea agreement and should make a complete record of the plea agreement. The court must personally advise the defendant that the agreement is in no way binding on the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Conger · State v. Hampton“[t]he prohibition against double jeopardy is not triggered until 'jeopardy attaches' in the proceedings. Jeopardy means exposure to the risk of a determination of guilt or innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the prosecutor is bound by a valid plea agreement, and due process protects the defendant from the prosecutor's withdrawing from the agreement, we do not believe that considerations of double jeopardy and due process permit a circuit court to sua sponte relieve the prosecutor from a valid plea agreement. [T]he circuit court's sua sponte order vacating the pleas significantly implicates the public's and the defendant's interests in finality, repose, and fairness in the same way as a prosecutor's attempt to withdraw from a validly accepted plea agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.