41 Wis. 2d 729 - Berg v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 124 Wis. 2d 681 - State v. Wyss (1985), 76 Wis. 2d 259 - Holmes v. State (1977)
36 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 · 39 Wis. 2d 754 - State v. Hutnik · 28 Wis. 2d 412 - Gauthier v. State · Oseman v. State · 33 Wis. 2d 373 - Commodore 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Evidence is relevant when it is persuasive or indicative that a fact in controversy did or did not exist because the conclusion in question may be logically inferred from the evidence. The criterion of relevancy is whether or not the evidence adduced tends to cast any light upon the subject of the inquiry. Evidence of any fact is admissible as relevant which might establish the hypothesis of innocence, or show the defendant's guilt. Any evidence that assists in getting at the truth of the issue is relevant; in other words, any fact which tends to prove a material issue is relevant, even though it is only a link in the chain of facts which must he proved to make the proposition at issue appear more or less probable. Relevancy is not determined by resemblance to, but by the connection with, other facts.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““However, as this court has repeatedly stated, ‘Testimony supporting an alibi does not raise a reasonable doubt as a matter of law.’ State v. Grahn (1963), 21 Wis. 2d 49, 52 , 123 N. W. 2d 510 . The credibility of a witness to an alibi defense is to be measured by the same test that we apply to other witnesses. The credibility and the weight to be given to the testimony of such witnesses is strictly a function of the jury. State v. Clarke (1967), 36 Wis. 2d 263, 277 , 153 N. W. 2d 61 .””
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.