Appleton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2024
21 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 McCoy v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District 1 · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Bowsher v. SmithKline Corp. · Patterson 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a party is forbidden from placing a witness on the stand when the party's sole purpose in doing so is to present otherwise inadmissible evidence cloaked as impeachment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Helton · J.J. v. State“once a witness has admitted an inconsistent prior statement she has impeached herself and further evidence is unnecessary for impeachment purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Helton · Martin v. State“Onee [the witness] admitted he made a police statement prior to trial that was inconsistent with his testimony ..., impeachment was complete. [Hle had ad mitted himself a liar. Reciting segments of [his] pretrial statement was thus superfluous. The only purpose such recitation could have would be to get the details of [the witness'] former statement before the jury as substantive evidence ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Martin v. State
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.