155 Wis. 2d 119 - State v. DeSmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Eason (2001), State v. Ward (2000)
4 federal appellate · 56 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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'fair probability' that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'appropriate to further the Fourth Amendment's strong preference for searches conducted pursuant to a warrant.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Searches and Seizures. Section 11. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.