185 Wis. 2d 288 - State v. Heft’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 197 Wis. 2d 279 - State v. Post (1995), 219 Wis. 2d 516 - State v. Cardenas-Hernandez (1998)
1 federal appellate · 39 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. California · Chambers v. Mississippi · California v. Trombetta · Baxter v. Palmigiano
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he defendant has a defense if he or she proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the death would have occurred even if he or she had been exercising due care and he or she ... did not have a detectable amount of a restricted controlled substance in his or her blood.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a separate issue from the elements the state must prove and one which requires proof by preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Homicide by intoxicated use of vehicle or firearm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Benson
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.