219 Wis. 2d 481 - State v. Ferron’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 227 Wis. 2d 758 - State v. Erickson (1999), Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Employers Insurance of Wausau (2003)
51 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Kastigar v. United States · Payne v. Tennessee · Patton v. Yount · Reynolds v. States
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Stare decisis is the preferred course of judicial action because it promotes evenhanded, predictable, and consistent development of legal principles,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e hold that a prospective juror's bias is "manifest" whenever a review of the record: (1) does not support a finding that the prospective juror is a reasonable person who is sincerely willing to put aside an opinion or prior knowledge; or (2) does not support a finding that a reasonable person in the juror's position could set aside the opinion or prior knowledge. Adopting this approach serves two purposes. With a focus on prospective jurors' subjective willingness to set aside their biases, the first prong of this approach accounts for the circuit court's superior position to assess the demeanor and disposition of prospective jurors. The second prong allows the appellate courts to determine whether under the particular circumstances surrounding the voir dire examination, no reasonable juror could put aside the bias or opinion which is revealed by the record. See, e.g., Gesch, 167 Wis. 2d at 667 , 482 N.W.2d 99 (concluding that prospective jurors who are related to a state witness by blood or marriage to the third degree must be struck from the jury panel on the basis of implied bias).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he circuit courts are ... advised to err on the side of striking prospective jurors who appear to be biased, even if the appellate court would not reverse their determinations of impartiality. Such action will avoid the appearance of bias, and may save judicial time and resources in the long run.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tody · State v. Oswald
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.