126 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2008
14 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 105 Wis. 2d 231 - State v. Clausen · 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles · 119 Wis. 2d 664 - State v. Wittrock · 96 Wis. 2d 630 - State v. Burkman · 96 Wis. 2d 25 - State v. Eisch
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o define vagina according to its medical definition would permit a defendant to touch almost the entire female external genetalia without legal consequence. Such a construction is contrary to the legislature's intent [to broaden certain protections]. Moreover, it is absurd to construe vagina so narrowly as to permit touching of the external female genitalia.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the breast, buttock, anus, groin, scrotum, penis, vagina or pubic mound of a human being.”
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.