Pliemling v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . If the jury were satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt, as they should have been in order to convict him at all, that the defendant was guilty of this horrible deed, then it is quite evident that the verdict was a compromise, of the most unjustifiable if not reprehensible character; and if they were not so satisfied, then the verdict was a wrong and a crime.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pruett · State v. Germana

2. ““. . . Although the verdict is for an offense included in and less than murder in the first degree, for which the defendant might have been convicted under the information upon sufficient evidence, if unsustained by the evidence and by facts necessary to constitute the offense of murder in the third degree of which he was convicted, the verdict is erroneous, and the judgment must for that reason alone be reversed.” Citing State v. Hammond, 35 Wis. 315 ; State v. Erickson, 45 Wis. 86 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Germana

3. “the killing of a human being, without a design to effect death, by a person engaged in the commission of any felony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Glover