State v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Phelps v. Physicians Ins. Co. of Wisconsin, Inc. (2005), 2001 WI App 73 - Reget v. Paige (2001)
59 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 Patterson v. New York · 153 Wis. 2d 493 - State v. Poellinger · Vollmer v. Luety · 124 Wis. 2d 681 - State v. Wyss · 53 Wis. 2d 218 - Bautista v. State
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a defendant's assertion raising new facts and arguments that, if true, will defeat the plaintiff's or prosecution's claim even if all allegations in the complaint are true.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a reviewing court may overturn a verdict on grounds of insufficiency of the evidence only if the trier of fact could not possibly have drawn the appropriate inferences from the evidence adduced at trial to find the requisite guilt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'is so insufficient in probative value and force that it can be said as a matter of law that no trier of fact, acting reasonably, could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.