69 Wis. 2d 554 - State v. Amundson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Harrison (1975), 110 Wis. 2d 555 - State v. Armstrong (1983)
2 federal appellate · 75 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. State of Maryland · United States v. Augenblick · Killian v. United States · 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State · McArthur Et Al. v. Clifford, Secretary of Defense, Et Al.
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he inability of the defendant to show that the destroyed evidence was exculpatory does not alone defeat the claim that its destruction and nondisclosure by the prosecution denied the defendant due process of law given the showing that the evidence was clearly material to the issue of guilt or innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“under the objective- reasonable man test, with regard to the reasonableness of the actor's beliefs that he is threatened with immediate death or great bodily harm with no possible escape other than the commission of a criminal act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“limited to the most severe form of inducement”
2 later decisions 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.