143 Wis. 2d 728 - State v. Sugden’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2009
15 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 25 Wash. App. 635 - State v. Bryant · 137 Wis. 2d 367 - State v. Sugden · Cope v. Commonwealth · Scott v. State · 67 Mich. App. 481 - People v. Quintero
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f it is appropriate in terms of correctional or penal policy to segregate some persons in locked detention facilities, it is that custody that is sought to be maintained, and it is the escape from that facility or custody that should be punished as escape. If the escape statute is interpreted to mean that the act is not complete unless the inmate goes over the outer walls, the deterrent from breaking out of secure special custody is minimized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore“per se of an institution is not directly related to its geographical outer boundaries. There may be custody without the walls and custody of various kinds, without limitation, within the walls. Hence, from the face of the statute as juxtaposed against the facts here, it is apparent that the locked cottage where Sugden was held constituted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore“The issue presented here is whether the word, `custody,' as used in the escape statute pertains only to the general geographical boundary of a particular state penal institution or pertains also to secure custodial facilities that are located within such an institution and to which prisoners may be confined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore
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.