175 Wis. 2d 653 - State v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Gallion (2004), State v. Swiams (2004)
86 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 Marshall v. Lonberger · Lowenfield v. Phelps · 155 Wis. 2d 633 - State v. Pulizzano · 119 Wis. 2d 612 - State v. Harris · 136 Wis. 2d 222 - State v. Clappes
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the vicious or aggravated nature of the crime; the past record of criminal offenses; any history of undesirable behavior patterns; the defendant's personality, character and social traits; the results of a presentence investigation; the degree of the defendant's culpability; the defendant's demeanor at trial; the defendant's age, educational background and employment record; the defendant's remorse, repentance and cooperativeness; the defendant's need for rehabilitative control; the right of the public; and the length of pretrial detention.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a trial court does not expressly make a finding necessary to support its legal conclusion, an appellate court can assume that the trial court made the finding in the way that supports its decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial court is not required to recite 'magic words' to set forth its findings of fact. An implicit finding of fact is sufficient when the facts of record support the decision of the trial court.”
2 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.