44 Wis. 2d 259 - State v. Kitowski’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2015
20 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 · 28 Wis. 2d 412 - Gauthier v. State · 36 Wis. 2d 584 - State v. Smith · State v. Waters · Schwantes 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence is insufficient to support a conviction only if the evidence, when viewed most favorably to the State, "is so insufficient in probative value and force that it can be said as a matter of law that no trier of fact, acting reasonably, could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.".. . [T]he defendant bears a heavy burden in attempting to convince a reviewing court to set aside a jury's verdict on insufficiency of the evidence grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]ur duty is merely to ascertain from the record whether 'the trier of the facts could, acting reasonably, be convinced to the required degree of certitude by the evidence which it had a right to believe and accept as true.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is not required to convince the members of this court of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.