87 Wis. 2d 739 - McLemore v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably 103 Wis. 2d 228 - State v. Dean (1981), 106 Wis. 2d 185 - State v. Hoffman (1982)
30 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Michigan v. Tucker · Couch v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Question: “Is it possible for two polygraph examiner [s] polygraphists, giving two different polygraph tests to the same subject could reach different conclusions?” Answer: “Yes, that’s correct.” Again, Mr. Anderson was asked: Question: “Would you term polygraphy as science?” Answer: “It’s a science and art.” Question: “What do.yon mean by art?” Answer: “The scientific portion of polygraphy is the instrumentation, the art portion is the examiner.” The search for truth is too important to be left to an “artist” based on the state of the “art” as it presently ■ exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“To safeguard the system of the search for truth we have built up the various rules of evidence, again based on long experience, so that evidence and testimony going to the jury will be free from elements tending to distort the search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[P]olygraphy in its present state may be useful as an investigative tool, but ... its limitations and potential for misleading fact finders are such that it should not be part of [the] evidentiary system."”
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.