Chapters 901 to 911 shall be construed to secure fairness in administration, elimination of unjustifiable expense and delay, and promotion of growth and development of the law of evidence to the end that the truth may be ascertained and proceedings justly determined.
Wis. Stat. § 901.02
Purpose and construction
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State v. Manuel (2005)
Most recently applied in 381 Wis. 2d 284 - State v. Jones (In Re Commitment of Jones) (May 2018)
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How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.