State v. Leitner’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Wood (2010), United States v. White (2008)
2 federal appellate · 103 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 115 Wis. 2d 220 - State Ex Rel. La Crosse Tribune v. Circuit Court for La Crosse County · 93 Wis. 2d 278 - Elias v. State · 80 Wis. 2d 445 - Milwaukee County v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations · State v. Williams · 142 Wis. 2d 370 - State v. Koput
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] sentencing court may consider uncharged and unproven offenses and facts related to offenses for which the defendant has been acquitted.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'to provide a break to young offenders who demonstrate the ability to comply with the law' and to 'provide[] a means by which trial courts may, in appropriate cases, shield youthful offenders from some of the harsh consequences of criminal convictions.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“acquire 'full knowledge of the character and behavior pattern of the convicted defendant before imposing sentence.'”
6 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.