53 Wis. 2d 791 - Bednarski v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

cited by 14 later decisions

states following

November 1993

most recently cited

14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1993

14 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 · 31 Wis. 2d 110 - Lock v. State · 28 Wis. 2d 412 - Gauthier v. State · 48 Wis. 2d 619 - State v. Cassel · 44 Wis. 2d 68 - State v. Dolan

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

““The credibility of the witnesses is properly the function of the jury or the trier of fact, in this case the trial judge. It is only when the evidence that the trier of fact has relied upon is inherently or patently incredible that the appellate, court will substitute its judgment for that of the fact finder, who has the great advantage of being present at the trial.” Gauthier v. State (1965), 28 Wis. 2d 412, 416 , 137 N. W. 2d 101 , certiorari denied, 383 U. S. 916 , 86 Sup. Ct. 910, 15 L. Ed. 2d 671 . See also: Bednarski v. State (1972), 53 Wis. 2d 791, 794 , 193 N. W. 2d 668 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 61 Wis. 2d 17 - Voigt v. State
““Whoever endangers another’s safety by conduct imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, may be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 5 years or both.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 68 Wis. 2d 420 - Broadie v. State

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.