State v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 96 Wis. 2d 183 - John v. State (1980), State v. Temple (1982)
4 federal appellate · 38 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 Toussie 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These considerations do not mean that a particular offense should never be construed as a continuing one. They do, however, require that such a result should not be reached unless the explicit language of the substantive criminal statute compels such a conclusion or the nature of the crime involved is such that . . . [the legislature] must assuredly have intended that it be treated as a continuing one.” Toussie v. United States, 397 U.S. at 115 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“retains, ” there was a clear intention of the General Assembly to make this aspect of the crime a continuing offense. The word “retain’1 means”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.