83 Wis. 2d 185 - Stewart v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2005
2 federal appellate · 21 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 70 Wis. 2d 22 - Peters v. State · 58 Wis. 2d 25 - State v. Shaw · United States v. Jenkins · United States v. Scher · 75 Wis. 2d 522 - Murphy 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat all the facts necessary to warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence must be consistent with each other and with the main fact sought to be proved and the circumstances taken together must be of a conclusive nature leading on the whole to a satisfactory conclusion and producing in effect a reasonable and moral certainty that the accused and no other person committed the offense charged. [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a negative inference drawn from the witnesses' testimony is, standing alone, insufficient to support a conviction and... there must be independent support in the evidence for what is inferred”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he principle that [a] negative inference drawn from [a] defendant's claim of innocence must be supported by independent evidence....”
1 later decision 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.