44 Wis. 2d 120 - State v. Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably 47 Wis. 2d 668 - State v. Bergenthal (1970), 70 Wis. 2d 22 - Peters v. State (1975)
33 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 31 Wis. 2d 110 - Lock v. State · Huebner v. State · 41 Wis. 2d 29 - State v. Wilson · 24 Wis. 2d 190 - Zeisler Corp. v. Page · 11 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. John
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On review, it is not the function of the appellate court to decide which witnesses are to be believed. That is the exact function of the trier of fact, be such trier of fact the judge or a jury. Where credibility of witnesses is at issue, the trier of fact has an opportunity to observe the witnesses, their manner of testifying and their demeanor on the witness stand. These are the nuances that do not appear in a printed record.” State v. Christopher (1969), 44 Wis. 2d 120, 127 , 170 N. W. 2d 803 .”
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.