75 Wis. 2d 522 - Murphy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2006
20 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 49 Wis. 2d 263 - McCleary v. State · 70 Wis. 2d 179 - Ocanas v. State · 53 Wis. 2d 218 - Bautista v. State · 70 Wis. 2d 22 - Peters v. State · State v. Brodson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor
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.