56 Wis. 2d 539 - Buckner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 70 Wis. 2d 179 - Ocanas v. State (1975), State v. Knapp (2005)
47 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 Washington v. Texas · Barber v. Page · Giles v. State of Maryland · Ruffalo v. Mahoning County Bar Ass'n · 49 Wis. 2d 263 - McCleary 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant cannot receive a harsher sentence solely because he availed himself of one of his constitutional rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“cites no authority and attempts no showing that the trial court relied, in its determination of the proper sentence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court was making a general protestation against the rise in callousness for human life.”
2 later decisions 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.