44 Wis. 2d 151 - State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably 47 Wis. 2d 668 - State v. Bergenthal (1970), 49 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Melvin (1970)
43 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on 31 Wis. 2d 110 - Lock v. State · 33 Wis. 2d 373 - Commodore v. State · 40 Wis. 2d 72 - Greer v. State · Devroy v. State · Schmidt 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Third-degree murder. Whoever in the course of committing or attempting to commit a felony causes the death of another human being as a natural and probable consequence of the commission of or attempt to commit the felony, may be imprisoned not more than 15 years in excess of the maximum provided by law for the felony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court's reason for refusing to instruct on [those lesser offenses] was its belief that such crimes do not exist. Such belief is warranted by sec. 939.32(2), Stats.: . . . "Clearly intent as defined in sec. 939.23 is not an element of any of these crimes. The language of secs. 940.02, [second-degree murder] 940.03, [third-degree murder] and 940.05, [manslaughter] is not reconcilable with the concept of attempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An attempt to commit a crime requires that the actor have an intent to perform acts and attain a result which, if accomplished, would constitute such crime and that he does acts toward the commission of the crime which demonstrate unequivocally, under all the circumstances, that he formed that intent and would commit the crime except for the intervention of another person or some other extraneous factor.”
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.