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73 Wis. 2d 400 - State v. Killory’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

83
cited by 83 later decisions
7
states following
June 2016
most recently cited

83 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 211 Wis. 2d 397 - State v. Setagord (1997), Bowers v. State (1978)

83 state decisions

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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 Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · 49 Wis. 2d 263 - McCleary v. State · 70 Wis. 2d 179 - Ocanas v. State · 41 Wis. 2d 497 - State v. Zwicker · 27 Wis. 2d 687 - City of Madison v. Geier

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

  1. ““. . . include the defendant’s personality, character and social traits, the results of a presentence investigation, the vicious or aggravated nature of the crime, the degree of defendant’s culpability, the defendant’s demeanor at trial, the defendant’s age, educational background and employment record, the defendant’s remorse, repentance and cooperativeness, the defendant’s need for close rehabilitative control, and the rights of the public.” State v. Killory, 73 Wis.2d 400, 408 , 243 N.W.2d 475 (1976), citing State v. Tew, 54 Wis.2d 361, 367-68 , 195 N.W.2d 615 (1972).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. ““An abuse of this discretion will be found only where the sentence is so excessive and unusual and so disproportionate to the offense committed as to shock public sentiment and violate the judgment of reasonable people concerning what is right and proper under the circumstances.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]he state has the right to enact reasonable legislation to protect the safety and well-being of minors”
    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.