198 Wis. 2d 516 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Cole (2003), 199 Wis. 2d 721 - State v. Cummings (1996)
58 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 Florida Power & Light Co. v. Lorion · Desist v. United States · Commissioner v. Engle · 34 Wis. 2d 278 - Whitty v. State · 105 Wis. 2d 231 - State v. Clausen
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to protect the accused from hasty, improvident, or malicious prosecution and to discover whether there is a substantial basis for bringing the prosecution and further denying the accused his right to liberty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · State v. Kleser“determin[e] if there is probable cause to believe a felony has been committed by the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White · State v. Kleser“that the State need only establish probable cause that a felony occurred as to one count in a set of transactionally related counts for there to be a valid bind over on that set, and need not establish probable cause that the specific felony alleged in each count was committed”
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.