181 Wis. 2d 410 - State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Richards v. Wisconsin (1997), 208 Wis. 2d 166 - In RE MARRIAGE OF COOK v. Cook (1997)
4 district · 87 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3109
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Ker v. State of California · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · Miller 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is open to revision in every case, `deciding cases becomes a mere exercise of judicial will, with arbitrary and unpredictable results.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A court should not depart from precedent without sufficient justification.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“precedent has become detrimental to coherence and consistency in the law.”
3 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.