220 Wis. 2d 371 - State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2021
23 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 Strickland v. Washington · 208 Wis. 2d 166 - In RE MARRIAGE OF COOK v. Cook · 153 Wis. 2d 493 - State v. Poellinger · 124 Wis. 2d 525 - State v. Dyess · 124 Wis. 2d 681 - State v. Wyss
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be found guilty of possession of a controlled substance in Wisconsin, the defendant must have had the substance under his or her control and must have knowingly possessed the substance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the mere presence of drugs in a person’s system is insufficient to prove that the drugs are knowingly possessed by the person or that the drugs are within the person’s control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the presence of drugs in Griffin's urine and blood stream, without more, is insufficient evidence on which to base a possession conviction.”
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.