87 Wis. 2d 791 - Hammen v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1979

Citation profile

cited by 42 later decisions

states following

July 2009

most recently cited

40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 115 Wis. 2d 334 - State v. Pharr (1983), 108 Wis. 2d 723 - State v. Alsteen (1982)

40 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 Desist v. United States · 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State · 57 Wis. 2d 344 - Wold v. State · 75 Wis. 2d 244 - Klimas v. State · 77 Wis. 2d 89 - State v. Spraggin

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[r]egardless of the extent of the trial court's reasoning, we will uphold a discretionary decision if there are facts in the record which would support the trial court's decision had it fully exercised its discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 210 Wis. 2d 694 - State v. Richardson · State v. Payano
“[e]vidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 108 Wis. 2d 723 - State v. Alsteen · 99 Wis. 2d 657 - State v. Cartagena
“(1) The overstrong tendency to believe the defendant guilty of the charge merely because he is a person likely to do such acts; (2) the tendency to condemn not because he is believed guilty of the present charge but because he has escaped punishment from other offenses; (3) the injustice of attacking one who is not prepared to demonstrate the attacking evidence is fabricated; and (4) the confusion of issues which might result from bringing in evidence of other crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 108 Wis. 2d 723 - State v. Alsteen

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.