75 Wis. 2d 371 - Hart v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

cited by 88 later decisions

states following

February 2020

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 124 Wis. 2d 525 - State v. Dyess (1985), 87 Wis. 2d 723 - Morgan v. Pennsylvania General Insurance (1979)

2 federal appellate · 86 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 31 Wis. 2d 110 - Lock v. State · 57 Wis. 2d 344 - Wold v. State · 60 Wis. 2d 683 - State v. Cydzik · Osborne v. Montgomery · 33 Wis. 2d 154 - Rausch v. Buisse

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

“The test of harmless error is not whether some harm has resulted, but, rather, whether the appellate court in its independent determination can conclude there is sufficient evidence, other than and uninfluenced by the inadmissible evidence, which would convict the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt. This test is based on reasonable probabilities.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 96 Wis. 2d 290 - Pohl v. State · 111 Wis. 2d 150 - State v. Gavigan
“ordinary negligence to a high degree, consisting of conduct which the actor should realize creates a substantial and unreasonable risk of death or great bodily harm to another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 124 Wis. 2d 525 - State v. Dyess · 205 Wis. 2d 100 - State v. Lindvig
“[e]rrors committed at trial should not overturn the conviction unless it appears the result might probably have been more favorable to the party complaining had the error not occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 96 Wis. 2d 290 - Pohl v. State · 111 Wis. 2d 150 - State v. Gavigan

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.