State v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2024
2 federal appellate · 14 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 197 Wis. 2d 279 - State v. Post · Steinbeck v. Gerosa · State v. Green · 223 Wis. 2d 303 - State v. O'BRIEN · 154 Wis. 2d 387 - State v. Coogan
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts act only to determine actual controversies — not to announce principles of law or to render purely advisory opinions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As we have stated, to be entitled to an in[-]camera review of confidential records, a defendant must set forth a specific factual basis demonstrating a reasonable likelihood that the records contain relevant information that is necessary to a determination of guilt or innocence and not merely cumulative to evidence already available to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Given the confidential nature of mental health records, it makes it very difficult in most cases for the defendant to predict what evidence will be found during a review of the records and thus how it may be material to the case.”
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.