112 Wis. 2d 166 - State v. Popanz’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 152 Wis. 2d 113 - State v. McManus (1989), 174 Wis. 2d 255 - State v. Pittman (1993)
70 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · 101 Wis. 2d 441 - State v. Baldwin · 41 Wis. 2d 497 - State v. Zwicker · 74 Wis. 2d 705 - State v. Courtney · 88 Wis. 2d 293 - Wisconsin Bingo Supply & Equipment Co. v. Wisconsin Bingo Control Board
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal statute must be sufficiently definite to give a person of ordinary intelligence who seeks to avoid its penalties fair notice of conduct required or prohibited. 'Vague laws may trap the innocent by not providing fair warning.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The danger posed by a vague law is that officials charged with enforcing the law may apply it arbitrarily or the law may be so unclear that a trial court cannot properly instruct the jury as to the applicable law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Due process requires that the law set forth fair notice of the conduct prohibited or required and proper standards for enforcement of the law and adjudication.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.