217 Wis. 2d 531 - State v. Kieffer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Griffith (2000), State v. Matejka (2001)
64 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Ornelas v. United States
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'mutual use of the property by persons generally having joint access or control for most purposes, so that it is reasonable to recognize that any of the co-inhabitants has the right to permit the inspection in his own right.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guard · State v. Pickens“the information available to the police officers at the time of the search would justify a reasonable belief that the party consenting to the search had the authority to do so.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guard · State v. Pickens“warrant [an officer] of reasonable caution in the belief that [Shelly] had authority over the premises”
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.