83 Wis. 2d 134 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 167 W. Va. 540 - State v. Peacher (1981), 98 Wis. 2d 345 - State v. Prober (1980)
24 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 Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Harrington v. California · South Dakota v. Opperman · United States v. Chadwick
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the law, a defendant is a competent witness and you should not discredit the testimony merely because the defendant is charged with a crime. The defendant's testimony should be weighed as the testimony of any other witness; considerations of interest, appearance, manner, and other matters bearing upon credibility apply to the defendant in common with all witnesses. Wis J I — Criminal 300.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The defendant] is directly interested in the result of the trial. In determining the weight to be given to the testimony of the defendant, it is proper for you to take such interest into consideration . . .. You have a right to consider his situation, his interest in the result of the trial, [and] the temptation which may exist under the circumstances to testify falsely . . ..”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct[s] the jury to disbelieve the defendant”
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.