State v. Morford’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County (2004), Teschendorf v. State Farm Ins. Companies (2006)
41 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 208 Wis. 2d 166 - In RE MARRIAGE OF COOK v. Cook · 197 Wis. 2d 279 - State v. Post · 137 Wis. 2d 581 - Nicholson v. Home Insurance Companies, Inc. · State v. Leitner · 213 Wis. 2d 488 - State v. Castillo
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) is of great public importance; (2) occurs so frequently that a definitive decision is necessary to guide circuit courts; (3) is likely to arise again and a decision of the court would alleviate uncertainty; or (4) will likely be repeated, but evades appellate review because the appellate review process cannot be completed or even undertaken in time to have a practical effect on the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] court must ascertain the legislative intent from the language of the statute in relation to its context, history, scope, and objective, including the consequences of alternative interpretations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court shall grant the petition unless the state proves by clear and convincing evidence that the person is still a sexually violent person and that it is still substantially probable that the person will engage in acts of sexual violence if the person is not continued in institutional care. In making a decision under this subsection, the court may consider, without limitation because of enumeration, the nature and circumstances of the behavior that was the basis of the allegation in the [initial commitment] petition..., the person's mental history and present mental condition, where the person will live, how the person will support himself or herself and what arrangements are available to ensure that the person has access to and will participate in necessary treatment ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Brown
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.