Shoeffler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Reynolds v. States (1878), Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Hillmon (1903)
23 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He may be surrounded by those whose suspicions are excited to a degree amounting to accusation, and be fully aware that his escape would be impossible if attempted, and be pressed with questions in such manner and under such circumstances as to render his answers compulsory. But this would be in the nature of duress.” Schoeffler v. State, 3 Wis. 823, 844 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flamme v. State
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.