184 Wis. 2d 794 - State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Pearson v. Callahan (2009), 210 Wis. 2d 597 - State v. Caban (1997)
2 district · 28 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been settled that objects falling in the plain view of an officer who has a right to be in the position to have that view are subject to seizure and may be introduced in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson“we will not second-guess police tactics so long as the constitutional requirements are met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torres
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.