State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2024
14 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.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One woman drives while intoxicated, threatening the lives of countless citizens. Under Wisconsin's drunk driving laws——the weakest in the nation——she has committed a non-criminal offense if it is her first, or only a misdemeanor unless it is her fifth (or subsequent) offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One man beats his wife, harming her physically and emotionally and traumatizing their children who witness the assault. He may, however, only have committed battery, a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Another man enters a garage to steal a shovel; he has committed a burglary,”
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.