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← 338 WIS2D 565 - State v. Dowdy

State v. Dowdy’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
June 2024
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 93 Wis. 2d 433 - Wirth v. Ehly · 106 Wis. 2d 368 - State v. Alles · State v. Ndina · 106 Wis. 2d 31 - State v. Holmes · 70 Wis. 2d 508 - In Re Hon. Charles E. Kading

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “whether a circuit court has inherent authority to reduce the length of probation, and if so, what standard applies [because] [n]either Dowdy's petition to the circuit court nor the circuit court's order was grounded in the court's alleged inherent authority.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “It is commonly understood that there are four main purposes of sentencing: (1) deterrence; (2) rehabilitation; (3) retribution; and (4) segregation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “did not decide whether a circuit court possesses the inherent authority to reduce a defendant's probation period.”
    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.