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227 Wis. 2d 285 - State v. Scheidell’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
2
states following
June 2023
most recently cited

36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Davidson (2000), State v. Hammer (2000)

36 state decisions

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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 Younger v. Harris · Chambers v. Mississippi · 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State · 216 Wis. 2d 768 - State v. Sullivan · United States v. Stevens

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

  1. “nearness of time, place, and circumstance”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. State v. Hunt · State v. Hammer
  2. “[t]hird-party defense evidence may be admissible under the legitimate tendency [e.g., Denny] test if the defendant can show that the third party had (1) the motive and (2) the opportunity to commit the charged crime, and (3) can provide some evidence to directly connect the third person to the crime charged which is not remote in time, place or circumstance.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. General Grant Wilson · 337 Wis. 2d 351 - State v. Avery
  3. “[i]n a situation where the perpetrator of the allegedly similar crime is unknown, it would be virtually impossible for the defendant to satisfy the motive or the opportunity prongs of the legitimate tendency test of Denny.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. General Grant Wilson · 337 Wis. 2d 351 - State v. Avery

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.