State v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State v. Allen (2004), State v. Love (2005)
44 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 Chapman v. State of California · Heller v. Doe Ex Rel. Doe · Kansas v. Hendricks · Kansas v. Crane · 117 Wis. 2d 529 - Ball v. District No. 4, Area Board
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“takes into account all past violations of the law in attempting to evaluate the probability of future sexually assaultive behavior.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the nature of the error, the frequency of the error, the nature of the state's case, the nature of the defense, the importance of the erroneously admitted or excluded evidence to the prosecution's or defense's case, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the erroneously admitted or excluded evidence, whether the erroneously admitted evidence duplicates the untainted evidence, and the overall strength of the prosecution's case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n ch. 980 proceedings, the fact finder must necessarily consider a respondent's 'relevant character traits and patterns of behavior, and the likelihood that any problematic traits or propensities have been or can be modified' in order to assure the safety of the community at large and the person himself.”
1 later decision 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.