State v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person acting 15 No. 2018AP2318-CR with utter disregard must possess 'a state of mind which has no regard for the moral or social duties of a human being.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 339 Wis. 2d 170 - State v. Geske · State v. Alan M. Johnson

2. “carefully avoided per se rules in this area and instead [have] consistently applied a totality of the circumstances approach to the cases.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Burris · 339 Wis. 2d 170 - State v. Geske

3. “consider the totality of the circumstances when determining whether the defendant showed some regard for life.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Burris · 339 Wis. 2d 170 - State v. Geske