98 Wis. 2d 725 - State v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 103 Wis. 2d 56 - Kranzush v. Badger State Mutual Casualty Co. (1981), 167 Wis. 2d 749 - State v. Borrell (1992)
7 federal appellate · 33 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 80 Wis. 2d 445 - Milwaukee County v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations · 97 Wis. 2d 72 - Steele v. State · State v. Colbert · 173 Cal. App. 2d 263 - M. G. Chamberlain & Co. v. Simpson · State v. Holt
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the trial court’s determination that the offered testimony from the psychiatric witness was not “scientific technical or other specialized knowledge” which would “assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue” and thus was properly excludable pursuant to sec. 907.02, Stats. The psychiatrist’s qualifications as an expert were conceded; however, that does not end the inquiry with respect to whether an expert should be permitted to give evidence to the fact trier, sec. 907.02, and whether to permit the exercise of an expert’s prerogative to address the fact trier in the form of opinion or inference. Sec. 907.04.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“admission to a county jail inmate. Id. Dalton did not deny choking and killing the victim at trial, but instead offered testimony supporting his argument that the crime was second-degree murder because he did not intend to kill her. Id. at 733 . We concluded that although Dalton's statement to his wife could give rise to a stronger inference of intent,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“he was not aware of anything in the field of psychiatry which substantiated the theory that a psychiatrist could express an opinion on whether or not a person had the intent to kill at the time he committed the homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Muench v. Israel
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.