39 Wis. 2d 733 - State v. Midell’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Davidson (2000), 44 Wis. 2d 454 - Cheney v. State (1969)
1 federal appellate · 38 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 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State · Price v. State · 36 Wis. 2d 584 - State v. Smith · State v. Adams · State v. Ketchum
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . sec. 885.19, Stats., expressly provides that a defendant who takes the stand may be asked if he has ever been convicted of crime. State v. Ketchum [(1953), 263 Wis. 82, 87 , 56 N. W. 2d 531 ] ruled that such defendant may be asked the number of times he has been so convicted. In State v. Adams [(1950), 257 Wis. 433 , 43 N. W. 2d 446 ] the defendant had testified on direct examination to four previous convictions. On cross-examination, the district attorney referred to the nature of such previous offenses and this court held that it was error to permit such inquiry. The court did not conclude that the mere number of convictions may not be brought out. . . .” State v. Midell, supra, at pages 738 and 739.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'This is a familiar problem and in Whitty v. State, this court thoroughly reexamined the fundamental rules underlying the admissibility of evidence of prior crimes, incidents or occurrences. The court made it clear that such evidence is not admitted for purposes of proving general character, criminal propensity or general disposition on the issue of guilt or innocence....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davidson“the two sales took place so close together, showing a pattern and a state of mind of the defendant.”
1 later decision 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.