68 Wis. 2d 389 - Birts v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2013
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 Brady v. United States · State v. Reppin · 43 Wis. 2d 661 - Ernst v. State · 66 Wis. 2d 577 - Wyandotte Chemicals Corp. v. Royal Electric Manufacturing Company, Inc. · 57 Wis. 2d 17 - State Ex Rel. White v. Gray
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.
““[A]s a matter of public policy the entire judicial process in a criminal or civil proceeding is a search for truth, and the trial court’s important role as fact finder should not be usurped by the district attorney entering into a stipulation on a matter of fact which, in the end, has to be determined by the finder of fact.” (Footnote omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““972.11 Evidence and practice; civil rules applicable. (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), the rules of evidence and practice in civil actions shall be applicable in all criminal proceedings unless the context of a section or rule manifestly requires a different construction. . . .” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The important point here is that the alleged misunderstanding concerned indirect [collateral] consequences of the plea, defendant's parole rights, and that absolutely no commitment was made as to those rights. . . . His beliefs concerning his release time were the product of his own mind....”
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.