161 Wis. 2d 960 - State v. Whitrock’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 218 Wis. 2d 180 - State v. Phillips (1998), State v. Martwick (2000)
40 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has a legitimate expectation of privacy in the invaded place.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) whether the defendant had a property interest in the premises, (2) whether he was legitimately (lawfully) on the premises; (3) whether he had complete dominion and control and the right to exclude others; (4) whether he took precautions customarily taken by those seeking privacy; (5) whether he put the property to some private use; and (6) whether the claim of privacy is consistent with historical notions of privacy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“we will uphold the trial court's findings of fact unless they are against the great weight and clear preponderance of the evidence.”
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.