65 Wis. 2d 525 - Fells v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

cited by 64 later decisions

states following

August 2018

most recently cited

64 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 115 Wis. 2d 334 - State v. Pharr (1983), 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles (1982)

64 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 Neil v. Biggers · 31 Wis. 2d 110 - Lock v. State · United States v. Interstate Commerce Commission · 53 Wis. 2d 218 - Bautista v. State · 41 Wis. 2d 230 - Gelhaar 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[w]e test the sufficiency of the evidence leading to the conviction by the [following] oft-stated rules...: [We] must affirm if [we] find[] that the jury, acting reasonably, could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The function of weighing the credibility of witnesses is exclusively in the jury’s province, and the jury verdict will be overturned only if, viewing the evidence most favorably to the state and the conviction, it is inherently or patently incredible, or so lacking in probative value that no jury could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. [Emphasis omitted.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 148 Wis. 2d 807 - State v. Allbaugh · 126 Wis. 2d 447 - State v. Horn
““Wis J I — Criminal, Part II, 1105, states and we approve the following as an accurate statement of the law: “ . If one person (assaults another violently with a dangerous weapon, likely to kill), . . . then when there are no circumstances to prevent or rebut the presumption, the legal and natural presumption is that death was intended.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 85 Wis. 2d 22 - Johnson v. State · 92 Wis. 2d 875 - Adams v. State
“'When one intentionally points a loaded gun at the vital part of the body of another and discharges it, it cannot be said that [that person] did not intend the natural, usual, and ordinary consequences.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 196 Wis. 2d 308 - State v. Webster · 85 Wis. 2d 22 - Johnson v. State

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.