59 Wis. 2d 269 - Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 121 Wis. 2d 389 - State v. Dunn (1984), 110 Wis. 2d 414 - State v. Padilla (1982)
62 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · Cassell v. Texas · 38 Ala. App. 64 - Wright v. State · 57 Wis. 2d 543 - State v. Harper · 40 Wis. 2d 223 - State Ex Rel. Evanow v. Seraphim
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] 11 that is needed is a believable account of the defendant's commission of a felony.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Well, gentlemen, I’m prepared to rule upon the request that the court submit as a lesser-included offense the offense of second-degree murder. As counsel are well cognizant of the fact that the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given to the testimony, of course, is a matter for the jury. The trial judge is required to submit a lesser-included offense if there’s reasonable basis in the evidence that would permit a conviction of a lesser-included offense and acquittal of the greater offense. Should the jury believe the testimony as to the defendant’s state of intoxication, of course, they might well find it sufficient to negative the intent that is a necessary element of first-degree murder and should they do that, then second-degree murder would, in the judgment of the court, be involved and would be a necessary lesser-included offense to be submitted to the jury. I’ll therefore over the objection of the state submit second-degree murder as a lesser-included offense. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““940.03 Third-degree murder. Whoever in the course of committing or attempting to commit a felony causes the death of another human being as a natural and probable consequence of the commission of or attempt to commit the felony, may be imprisoned not more than 15 years in excess of the maximum provided by law for the felony.””
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.