206 Wis. 2d 51 - State v. Waldner’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Woods v. State (1997), 231 Wis. 2d 293 - County of Jefferson v. Renz (1999)
87 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brown v. Texas · Shibuya v. Voss · 155 Wis. 2d 77 - State v. Anderson · 147 Wis. 2d 824 - State v. Jackson
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“possesses specific and articulable facts which would warrant a reasonable belief that criminal activity was afoot.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“a reasonable suspicion that something unlawful might well he afoot.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Post · State v. Pugh“reasonably suspect, in light of his or her experience, that some kind of criminal activity has taken or is taking place.”
4 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.