76 Wis. 2d 87 - Scarbrough v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2025
14 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 United States v. Ewell · 74 Wis. 2d 343 - Norwood v. State · 61 Wis. 2d 236 - Day v. State · 55 Wis. 2d 181 - State v. Scarbrough
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) if witnesses die or disappear during a delay; (2) if defense witnesses are unable to recall accurately events of the distant past; or (3) if a defendant is hindered in his ability to gather evidence, contact witnesses, or otherwise prepare his defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“most serious . . . because the inability of a defendant adequately to prepare his case skews the fairness of the entire system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To be given no weight is 'a valid reason, such as a missing witness' which serves 'to justify appropriate delay.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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