52 Wis. 2d 651 - Farrar v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 154 Wis. 2d 116 - State v. McQuay (1990), State v. Williams (2002)
60 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 North Carolina v. Alford · State v. Reppin · 27 Wis. 2d 623 - State v. Strickland · State Ex Rel. Burnett v. Burke · 46 Wis. 2d 478 - State v. Wolfe
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he entire sentencing process is to be a search for the truth and an evaluation of alternatives. Any advance understanding between prosecutor and defendant must not involve the trial judge ... or court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no sound reason for so doing where a defendant, as a matter of trial tactics and strategy, elects to forego objection and chooses to proceed down an alternative road leading in a different direction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]ince State v. Wolfe, 46 Wis. 2d 478 , 175 N.W.2d 216 (1970), this court has made it clear that trial courts are not to participate in plea bargains.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conger · State v. Williams
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.