111 Wis. 2d 133 - State v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 66 state decisions

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

1. “the Double Jeopardy Clause does no more than prevent the sentencing court from prescribing greater punishment than the legislature intended.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 168 Wis. 2d 486 - State v. Sauceda · 146 Wis. 2d 442 - State v. Nelson

2. “The applicable rule is that, where the same act or transaction constitutes a violation of two distinct statutory provisions, the test to be applied to determine whether there are two offenses or only one is whether each provision requires proof of an additional fact which the other does not.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Derango · 223 Wis. 2d 641 - State v. Church

3. “Proof of second-degree felony-murder under sec. 940.02(2) requires proof of all the elements of kidnapping and requires proof of additional elements, namely that the death of another human being was caused as a natural and probable consequence of the commission of or attempt to commit the kidnapping, and proof of kidnapping does not require proof of any element which is not necessary to prove the second-degree murder charge.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. La Vern Patrick Rogers v. Kenneth R. Morgan, Warden · 160 Wis. 2d 722 - State v. Kuntz