76 Wis. 2d 30 - Wagner v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably United States v. Watson (1982), 100 Wis. 2d 452 - Hagenkord v. State (1981)
4 federal appellate · 47 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 Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · 53 Wis. 2d 218 - Bautista v. State · 60 Wis. 2d 404 - State v. Weso · 44 Wis. 2d 177 - State v. Davidson · 41 Wis. 2d 552 - Strait 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Depraved mind[,] regardless of human life" does not mean that the mind of the defendant must have been diseased or that he must have had a mental disorder generally described as insanity or feeblemindedness. The depravity of mind referred to . . . exists when the conduct . . . demonstrates an utter lack of concern for the life and safety of another and for which conduct there is no justification or excuse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“conduct imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life.” Sec. 941.30, Stats. The evidence was undisputed that the defendant turned on his headlights and swerved to avoid the squad car on the one- way street, and that he sounded his horn and braked in an attempt to avoid colliding with the other vehicle. In light of these facts, the court held that the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . does not require the existence of any particular state of mind in the actor at the time of the crime but only requires that there be conduct imminently dangerous to human life, which conduct evinces a depraved mind.” Wagner v. State, 76 Wis.2d 30, 48 , 250 N.W.2d 331 (1977).”
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.