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170 Wis. 2d 676 - State v. Block’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
3
states following
April 2011
most recently cited

14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2011

14 state decisions

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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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · 160 Wis. 2d 722 - State v. Kuntz · 85 Wis. 2d 722 - Cranmore v. State · Cooper v. Campbell

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In every case and in all courts the jurors selected to try the issues in the action or proceeding, civil or criminal, shall be sworn; and the oath may be administered in substantially the following form: Do you and each of you swear (or affirm) that you will well and truly try the issue joined between . . . plaintiff, and . . . ., defendant, and, unless discharged by the court, a true verdict give, according to law and the evidence given in court, so help you God.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 181 Wis. 2d 826 - State v. Dwyer
  2. “The prosecution is required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt only that defendant's acts were a 'substantial factor' in causing the victim's death — not that they were the sole cause.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 2008 WI App 106 - State v. Payette
  3. “the defendant's conduct was a substantial factor in producing”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Rodriguez

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.