State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

72 state decisions

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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “both the content of information possessed by police and its degree of reliability.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 386 Wis. 2d 630 - State v. End · 384 Wis. 2d 272 - City of W. Bend v. Wille

2. “Risking one's identification intimates that, more likely than not, the informant is a genuinely concerned citizen as opposed to a fallacious prankster.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 385 Wis. 2d 212 - State v. Mays · State v. Robinson

3. “able to point to specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant that intrusion.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 384 Wis. 2d 633 - City of Watertown v. Perschke · 384 Wis. 2d 272 - City of W. Bend v. Wille