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57 Wis. 2d 543 - State v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

106
cited by 106 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
11
states following
July 2014
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 98 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 106 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope (1979)

6 federal appellate · 98 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno

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

  1. ““. . . Effective representation is not to be equated, as some accused believe, with a not-guilty verdict. But the representation must be equal to that which the ordinarily prudent lawyer, skilled and versed in criminal law, would give to clients who had privately retained his services. . . .””
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 109 Wis. 2d 224 - State v. Fencl · 58 Wis. 2d 671 - Leroux v. State
  2. ““3.2 Interviewing the client. “(a) As soon as practicable the lawyer should seek to determine all relevant facts known to the accused. In so doing, the lawyer should probe for all legally relevant information without seeking to influence the direction of the client’s responses.” “4.1 Duty to investigate. “It is the duty of the lawyer to conduct a prompt investigation of the circumstances of the case and explore all avenues leading to facts relevant to guilt and degree of guilt or penalty. The investigation should always include efforts to secure information in the possession of the prosecution and law enforcement authorities. The duty to investigate exists regardless of the accused’s admissions or statements to the lawyer of facts constituting guilt or his stated desire to plead guilty.””
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Schaefer · 95 Wis. 2d 226 - Roe v. State
  3. “[A]n accused is not entitled to the ideal, perfect defense or the best defense but only to one which under all the facts gives him reasonably effective representation.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 109 Wis. 2d 224 - State v. Fencl · State v. Balliette

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.