197 Wis. 2d 279 - State v. Post’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 237 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Martin v. Reinstein (1999), 47 Cal. 4th 1172 - People v. McKee (2010)
5 federal appellate · 237 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Roe v. Wade · City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · United States v. Salerno · Addington v. Texas · Zinermon v. Burch
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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“dangerous because he or she suffers from a mental disorder that makes it substantially probable that the person will engage in acts of sexual violence.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the least restrictive manner consistent with the requirements of the person and in accordance with the court's commitment order.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Chapter 980 authorizes the civil commitment of persons, previously convicted of a sexually violent offense, who currently suffer from a mental disorder that predisposes them to repeat such acts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rachel · State v. Franklin
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.