203 Wis. 2d 497 - State v. Eckert’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Plude (2008), State v. Wheat (2002)
58 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 Strickland v. Washington · Ornelas v. United States · 92 Wis. 2d 797 - State v. MacHner · 156 Wis. 2d 128 - State v. Richardson · 201 Wis. 2d 219 - State v. Sanchez
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e conclude that a defendant does not receive ineffective assistance where defense counsel has discussed with the client the general theory of defense, and when based on that general theory, trial counsel makes a strategic decision not to request a lesser-included instruction because it would be inconsistent with, or harmful to, the general theory of defense.”). 10 . In this regard, the State argues:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Mills“In reviewing a trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress evidence, the trial court's findings of fact will be upheld unless they are clearly erroneous. Whether a search or seizure passes constitutional muster, however, is a question of law subject to de novo review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“decision of whether to request a lesser-included offense instruction is a complicated one involving legal expertise and trial strategy”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arko v. People
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.