State v. Pettit’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 726 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 732 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 190 Wis. 2d 31 - State v. Flynn (1994), 2003 WI App 140 - Kernz v. J. L. French Corp. (2003)
2 federal appellate · 726 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Gray v. United States
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 732 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We may decline to review issues inadequately briefed.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Arguments unsupported by references to legal authority will not be considered.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“We cannot serve as both advocate and judge.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.