State v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably 135 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Friedrich (1987), 53 Wis. 2d 751 - Champlain v. State (1972)
27 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 Bowman v. Van Kuren · State v. West · Knapp v. Schneider · Rice v. State · Cornell v. Barnes
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase ‘indecent liberties’ means ‘such liberties as the common sense of society would regard as indecent and improper.’ 2 The term ‘privates’ as here used refers to the genital organs or sex organs of reproduction. 3 ””
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.