62 Wis. 2d 605 - Simpson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2019
18 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 State v. Shoffner · Nelson v. State · 45 Wis. 2d 550 - York v. State · Duthey v. State · Lowe 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As used in this chapter, the terms 'mental disease or defect' do not include an abnormality manifested only by repeated criminal or otherwise antisocial conduct”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The general rule in Wisconsin is that the admission of opinion evidence rests largely in the discretion of the trial court. York v. State (1970), 45 Wis.2d 550, 559 , 173 N.W.2d 693 . The opinion testimony of lay witnesses has been admitted in evidence on many subjects. It has been considered on the issue of insanity. Lowe v. State (1903), 118 Wis. 641 , 96 N.W. 417 ; Duthey v. State (1907), 131 Wis. 178 , 111 N.W. 222 ; Robinson v. State (1910), 143 Wis. 205 , 126 N.W. 750 .” Id. at 609.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“lay witness categorically has the right to give opinion testimony on the issue of insanity.”
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.