State v. Multaler’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

cited by 85 later decisions

states following

December 2025

most recently cited

83 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Davidson (2007), State v. Kelty (2006)

83 state decisions — followed in 18 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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996)

Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Alford · Andresen v. Maryland · Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition

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

“We accord great deference to the warrant-issuing judge's determination of probable cause, and that determination will stand unless the defendant establishes that the facts are clearly insufficient to support a finding of probable cause.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Jones · 386 Wis. 2d 629 - State v. Reigle
“The duty of the court issuing the warrant is to make a practical, common-sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before it, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 385 Wis. 2d 212 - State v. Glodowski · 384 Wis. 2d 415 - State v. Bridges
“[E]very probable cause determination must be made on a case-by-case basis, looking at the totality of the circumstances.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 384 Wis. 2d 415 - State v. Bridges · State v. Lindgren

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.