68 Wis. 2d 641 - State v. Kuta’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1998
24 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 Desist v. United States · 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State · 49 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Melvin · 60 Wis. 2d 404 - State v. Weso · 66 Wis. 2d 736 - Werner 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A depraved mind must be indifferent to the life of others. . . . “To constitute a depraved mind, more than a high degree of negligence or recklessness must exist. The mind must not only disregard the safety of another but be devoid of regard for the life of another. ... It is not necessary that the proof show a depraved mind in fact in the accused; it is sufficient that the conduct of the accused evinces or shows a state of mind which is generally considered by mankind to be a depraved mind. ‘Depraved’ as a verb means to pervert and as an adjective it means ‘marked by debasement, corruption, perversion, or deterioration.’ ... A depraved mind lacks a moral sense, an appreciation of life, is unreasonable and lacks judgment. . . . The excessiveness of the conduct in relation to its purpose, the nature of the conduct and the disregard for the possible result of such conduct evinces an unreasonable mind in that it lacked balance, a moral sense, and judgment and hence was depraved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(1) The defendant’s conduct was imminently dangerous to another, (2) the defendant’s conduct evinced a depraved mind, regardless of human life, and (3) the safety of another was actually endangered by the defendant’s conduct.” State v. Kuta, 68 Wis.2d 641, 644 , 229 N.W.2d 580 (1975).”
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.