84 Wis. 2d 370 - State v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 101 Wis. 2d 441 - State v. Baldwin (1981), 101 Wis. 2d 413 - Manson v. State (1981)
79 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 Roberts v. Louisiana · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · United States v. Telfaire · Brooks v. Tennessee · Ng Kam Fook v. P a Esperdy
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extrinsic evidence may be used to prove that a witness has a motive to testify falsely”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lock · State v. Long“[I]f the instructions of the court adequately cover the law applicable to the facts, this court will not find error in the refusal of special instructions, even though the refused instructions themselves would not be erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court has held that prejudice to a defendant is presumptively erased from the jury's collective mind when admonitory instructions have been properly given by the court.”
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.