51 Wis. 2d 477 - State v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 94 Wis. 2d 450 - Muller v. State (1980), 54 Wis. 2d 361 - State v. Tew (1972)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Mills v. Alabama · 49 Wis. 2d 263 - McCleary v. State · 28 Wis. 2d 412 - Gauthier v. State · 46 Wis. 2d 151 - Embry v. State · 41 Wis. 2d 230 - Gelhaar 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Seldom is an intent to kill ascertainable from the lips of the intender. Never can it be established by a retroactive mind-reading effort to determine what the actor was thinking when he planned and executed the act. That would require a crystal ball that recreated the past rather than sought to peer into the future.”
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.