58 Wis. 2d 144 - McMorris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably State v. Infantolino (1976), Commonwealth v. Stewart (1975)
56 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Harris v. New York · 44 Wis. 2d 454 - Cheney v. State · 53 Wis. 2d 483 - Thomas v. State · Ruffin v. State · State v. Colvin
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.
“evidence of the turbulent and dangerous character or reputation of the deceased or the victim of the assault is relevant in determining whether the victim or the accused was the aggressor, and as bearing on the reasonableness of the defendant's apprehension of danger at the time of the incident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Head“which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm unless he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself”
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.