135 Wis. 2d 266 - State v. Hurd’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 174 Wis. 2d 255 - State v. Pittman (1993), Doe Nelson Ma v. Milwaukee County (1990)
34 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 Morissette v. United States · 124 Wis. 2d 525 - State v. Dyess · Gross v. Hoffman · 124 Wis. 2d 681 - State v. Wyss · 118 Wis. 2d 526 - State v. Lossman
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he phrase "reasonable cause to suspect" fairly notifies a person of ordinary intelligence that if there is a reasonable basis to suspect that child abuse has occurred, that person must make a report to the appropriate agency. Whether a person possesses a reasonable suspicion that child abuse has occurred is not subject to misunderstanding. This requirement examines the totality of the facts and circumstances actually known to, and as viewed from the standpoint of, that person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, a statute need not define with absolute clarity and precision what is and what is not unlawful conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'there may exist particular instances of conduct the legal or illegal nature of which may not be ascertainable with ease.'”
2 later decisions 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.