52 Wis. 2d 89 - Sprague v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably 97 Wis. 2d 72 - Steele v. State (1980), Hughes v. Mathews (1978)
4 federal appellate · 16 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 47 Wis. 2d 668 - State v. Bergenthal · State v. Shoffner · 50 Wis. 2d 408 - State v. Hebard · 40 Wis. 2d 474 - Curl v. State · 81 Wis. 2d 399 - State v. Starke
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has held that it is the responsibility of the trier of fact to determine the weight and credibility of medical testimony on the issue of insanity and to determine whether the defendant has met the burden of proving he was insane. State v. Bergenthal (1970), 47 Wis. 2d 668 , 178 N. W. 2d 16 . Where there is sufficient credible evidence to support the finding of the jury, it will not be upset on appeal. McCool v. State (1971), 51 Wis. 2d 528 , 187 N. W. 2d 206 . . . .””
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.