158 Wis. 2d 609 - State v. Lange’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Williams v. State (2002), State v. Martwick (2000)
25 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 Griffin v. Wisconsin · Murray v. United States · United States v. Dunn · California v. Ciraolo · United States v. Karo
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in fact a genuinely independent source of the information and tangible evidence at issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In [Murray v. United States], the [United States] Supreme Court held that evidence initially discovered during an illegal search, but subsequently acquired through an independent and lawful source, is admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. St. Martin“convincing a trial court that no information gained from the illegal entry affected either the law enforcement officers' decision to seek a warrant or the magistrate's decision to grant it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Carroll
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.