195 Wis. 2d 388 - State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 198 Wis. 2d 450 - Gould v. American Family Mutual Insurance (1996), 201 Wis. 2d 611 - Finley Ex Rel. Reinhardt v. Culligan (1996)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · New Jersey Department of Corrections v. Nash · Brower v. United States · Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. testimony that Oliver shot his gun at a liquor bottle in a drug house when Morgan was present, three days before the shootings, and that Morgan was terrified; 2. testimony that two weeks before the shooting, a man pulled a gun on Morgan, her mother, and a friend, and that Morgan stepped into the path of the gun before her mother intervened; 3. testimony that gang members shot at Oliver while in Morgan’s presence three weeks before the homicide; 4. testimony that Morgan was robbed by a group of girls one month before the shooting; 5. testimony that Morgan’s sister’s boyfriend, a father-figure to Morgan, was shot and paralyzed in January 1991; 6. testimony that Morgan was robbed of her coat at gunpoint, in December 1990; 7. testimony that Morgan’s cousin was killed in a drive-by shooting in October 1990; 8. testimony that Morgan’s uncle, a close friend, was shot and killed in September 1990; 9. testimony that Morgan was robbed of her jewelry at gunpoint in September 1989; 10. testimony by Morgan that she was tied up and raped by the son of a landlord in 1988, when she was fourteen years old; 11. testimony that Morgan’s cousin was shot in a 1988 street fight and subsequently lost the use of her arm; 12. testimony that in 1988 Morgan stepped in front of a man with a gun to protect her aunt; 13. testimony that Morgan was severely beaten and robbed by a group of girls in June 1987; 14. testimony that Morgan’s mother shot a man, in front of Morgan, because he was molesting Morgan”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant is entitled to an instruction on a valid applicable theory of defense if it is timely requested and is supported by credible evidence.”
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.