75 Wis. 2d 26 - King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably 216 Wis. 2d 768 - State v. Sullivan (1998), 135 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Friedrich (1987)
4 federal appellate · 34 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 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State · 33 Wis. 2d 154 - Rausch v. Buisse · 44 Wis. 2d 454 - Cheney v. State · 41 Wis. 2d 230 - Gelhaar v. State · 65 Wis. 2d 525 - Fells 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““904.04 Character evidence not admissible to prove conduct; exceptions; other crimes. (1) CHARACTER EVIDENCE GENERALLY. Evidence of a person’s character or a trait of his character is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular occasion, except: “(a) Character of accused. Evidence of a pertinent trait of his character offered by an accused, or by the prosecution to rebut the same;...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In offering the expert testimony of the psychologist, as it related to the defendant's character, the defendant was properly relying upon the provisions of sec. 904.04(1)(a), Stats., and sec. 904.05(1). . . . Thus in this first-degree murder case, the defendant was entitled to place into evidence not only opinion testimony but expert opinion testimony concerning his general character trait of nonhos-tility and nonagressiveness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(2) OTHER crimes, WRONGS, OR acts. Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. This subsection does not exclude the evidence when offered for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.””
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.