State v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2023
14 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 211 Wis. 2d 397 - State v. Setagord · 131 Wis. 2d 153 - State v. Fry · 75 Wis. 2d 411 - State v. Asfoor · 227 Wis. 2d 389 - State v. Curiel · 231 Wis. 2d 293 - County of Jefferson v. Renz
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a crime involving the use of the dangerous weapon”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Any person claiming the right to possession of property seized pursuant to a search warrant or seized without a search warrant may apply for its return to the circuit court for the county in which the property was seized or where the search warrant was returned. The court shall order such notice as it deems adequate to be given the district attorney and all persons who have or may have an interest in the property and shall hold a hearing to hear all claims to its true ownership. If the right to possession is proved to the court's satisfaction, it shall order the property, other than contraband or property covered under sub. (lm) or (lr) or s. 173.12 or 173.21 (4), returned if: (a) The property is not needed as evidence or, if needed, satisfactory arrangements can be made for its return for subsequent use as evidence; or (b) All proceedings in which it might be required have been completed. (lm) (a) In this subsection: 1. "Crime" includes an act committed by a juvenile or incompetent adult which would have been a crime if the act had been committed by a competent adult. 2. "Dangerous weapon" has the meaning given in s. 939.22 (10). (b) If the seized property is a dangerous weapon or ammunition, the property shall not be returned to any person who committed a crime involving the use of the dangerous weapon or the ammunition. The property may be returned to the rightful owner under this section if the owner had no prior knowledge of and gave no consent to the commission of t”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If the seized property is a dangerous weapon or ammunition, the property shall not be returned to any person who committed a crime involving the use of the dangerous weapon or the ammunition.”
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.