220 Wis. 2d 588 - State v. Benzel’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2014
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.
Relationships
Relies on Marchetti v. United States · Grosso v. United States · United States v. United States Coin & Currency · Bradley v. State · 207 Wis. 2d 54 - State v. Hall
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.
“does not affect the basic accuracy of the factfinding process at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to the untenable result that a person stands convicted for conduct which has been held constitutionally immune from punishment.” Id. Further, relief was required by the application of simple logic: “A court cannot acquire jurisdiction to try a person for an act made criminal only by an unconstitutional law.” Id. (collecting cases). Therefore, the logic goes,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chance, Donald Ray“It follows that an offense created by an unconstitutional statute is no longer a crime and a conviction under such a statute cannot be a legal cause for imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. Nunnery
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.