State v. Sorenson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Wood (2010), Marder v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System (2005)
34 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 Custis v. United States · 197 Wis. 2d 279 - State v. Post · 173 Wis. 2d 681 - Michelle T. Ex Rel. Sumpter v. Crozier · United States v. Pelullo · 143 Wis. 2d 226 - State v. Sorenson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the trial to determine whether the person who is the subject of a petition under s. 980.02 is a sexually violent person, all rules of evidence in criminal actions apply. All constitutional rights available to a defendant in a criminal proceeding are available to the person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'an attempt to avoid, evade, or deny the force and effect of a judgment in an indirect manner and not in a direct proceeding described by law and instituted for the purpose of vacating, reviewing, or annulling it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If the language of the statute clearly and unambiguously sets forth the legislative intent, we need not look beyond the language to determine the meaning of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.