State v. Bronston’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Great bodily harm’ means bodily injury which creates a high probability of death, or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ or other serious bodily injury.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 85 Wis. 2d 112 - Cheatham v. State · 49 Wis. 2d 612 - Irby v. State

2. ““Mrs. Zilke’s injury resulting from the blow consisted of a two-inch laceration of the scalp on the left rear portion of her head that required four sutures to close. She remained in the hospital but a few hours and was released. The place on the skull where struck is where the left jaw bones are connected to the skull. For some time she had headaches and suffered pain in the left jaw which was diagnosed as traumatic arthritis of the left mandibular joint. Mrs. Zilke testified that she thought the headaches were a nervous reaction. She received medical treatment for the jaw condition and after a. while she did not have any more pain.” State v. Bronston, supra, 632, 633.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 Wis. 2d 612 - Irby v. State

3. ““Where, as in the instant case, the facts are undisputed as to the nature of the injury inflicted by the battery, it is a question of law and not of fact as to whether the injuries are sufficient to constitute the crime of ‘aggravated battery’ as defined by statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 Wis. 2d 612 - Irby v. State