State v. Gallion’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
240 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 244 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Harbor (2011), The Honorable William M. Gabler, Sr. v. Crime Victims Rights Board (2017)
240 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 Argersinger v. Hamlin · 49 Wis. 2d 263 - McCleary v. State · United States ex rel. Miller v. Twomey · 211 Wis. 2d 397 - State v. Setagord · 119 Wis. 2d 612 - State v. Harris
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 244 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellate judges should not substitute their preference for a sentence merely because, had they been in the trial judge's position, they would have meted out a different sentence.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage“by reference to the relevant facts and factors, explain how the sentence's component parts promote the sentencing objectives.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“include, but are not limited to, the protection of the community, punishment of the defendant, rehabilitation of the defendant, and deterrence to others.”
12 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.