40 Wis. 2d 474 - Curl v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably 97 Wis. 2d 72 - Steele v. State (1980), Hughes v. Mathews (1978)
4 federal appellate · 49 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 Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Maloney · 24 Wis. 2d 527 - State v. Nutley · State 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'To bifurcate a trial is to separate completely the issue of lack of accountability due to insanity from the issue of whether the crime was committed.’” Steele , at 90. In Steele , we stated that the issue posed by sec. 971.15, Stats. — whether or not there should be criminal responsibility for criminal conduct — was essentially a moral issue. The question in the second phase of the bifurcated trial we stated to be:”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . ‘it is not every possibility that must be removed before a conviction can be sustained, particularly where there is no evidence at all on which to base a reasonable alternative hypothesis as to what happened.’ . . .” 21”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[personality disturbances or emotional disorders that fall short of insanity are not required areas of court inquiry and particularly not in that portion of [the] bifurcated trial on the issue of guilt.”
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.