2005 WI App 98 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2022
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Eddings v. Oklahoma · Thompson v. Oklahoma · State v. Gallion · 70 Wis. 2d 179 - Ocanas v. State · 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so excessive and unusual and so disproportionate to the offense committed as to shock public sentiment and violate the judgment of reasonable people concerning what is right and proper under the circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the exercise of discretion has been demonstrated, we follow a consistent and strong policy against interference with the discretion of the [sentencing] court in passing sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The test for whether a sentence violates the Eighth Amendment and whether a sentence [i]s excessive are virtually identical in Wisconsin.”
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.