Devroy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1976
12 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 Hempton v. State · Johnson v. State · Krueger v. State · Ryan v. State · Weisenbach v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘to justify a conviction, and submittal for conviction of a lesser offense included within the greater, “there must be some reasonable ground on the evidence, in the judgment of the court, for a conviction of the former and not of the latter.” In the final analysis of the evidence, the test to be applied, in determining whether lesser degrees of the offense charged are to be submitted on request, is whether in any reasonable view of the evidence there is reasonable ground on the evidence, in the judgment of the court, for a conviction of the lesser offense and not the greater.’ . . .” Devroy v. State (1942), 239 Wis. 466, 468 , 1 N. W. 2d 875 .”
2 later decisions 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.