215 Wis. 2d 84 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2022
22 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 United States v. Salerno · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Colautti v. Franklin · Bowen v. Kendrick · State v. Kelekolio
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to give proper notice, a criminal statute must sufficiently warn people who wish to obey the law that their conduct comes near the proscribed area.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“simply because in some particular instance some type of conduct may create a question about its impact under the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by the ordinary process of construction, a practical or sensible meaning may be given to the .. . [law] ....”
2 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.