171 Wis. 2d 161 - State v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably State v. Davidson (2000), State v. Mayo (2007)
31 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 United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Haywood · State v. Mayo“criminal conviction is not to be lightly overturned on the basis of a prosecutor's comments standing alone, for the statements ... must be viewed in context.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“can rise to such a level that the defendant is denied his or her due process right to a fair trial.”
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.