87 Wis. 2d 804 - State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 223 Wis. 2d 303 - State v. O'BRIEN (1999), 175 Wis. 2d 713 - In Interest of Michael RB (1993)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · 57 Wis. 2d 344 - Wold v. State · 44 Wis. 2d 177 - State v. Davidson · 54 Wis. 2d 108 - State Ex Rel. Kanieski v. Gagnon
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant invokes the standard for harmless constitutional error. See Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18, 24 (1967). The error here was admission of testimony in violation of state law; this in no way rises to the level of deprivation of the right to a fair trial guaranteed by the sixth and fourteenth amendments.” Clark, 87 Wis. 2d at 818, n. 3 . The”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]easonable doubt need `. . . not exclude every possible doubt but is rather that degree of moral certitude based on convincing reason and excluding all doubt as to the existence of a different conclusion based on reasons.' State v. Clark, 87 Wis. 2d 804, 814 , 275 N.W.2d 715, 720 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`. . . It is only when the evidence that the trier of fact has relied upon is inherently or patently incredible that the appellate court will substitute its judgment for that of the factfinder, who has the great advantage of being present at the trial.'”
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.