80 Wis. 2d 122 - State v. Mendoza’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 131 Wis. 2d 246 - State v. Bangert (1986), 7 Cal. 4th 768 - People v. Christian S. (1994)
6 federal appellate · 87 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 Faretta v. California · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Williams v. Florida · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus the question before us . . . is . . . whether a reasonable construction of the evidence will support the defendant's theory 'viewed in the most favorable light it will”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“would require the court to weigh the evidence——accepting one version of facts, rejecting another——and thus invade the province of the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'An officer may be guilty of assault and battery if he [or she] uses unnecessary and excessive force ....'”
3 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.