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← 347 WIS2D 683 - State v. Matthew R. Steffes

State v. Matthew R. Steffes’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

20 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Batchelder · State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County · State v. Pettit · 153 Wis. 2d 493 - State v. Poellinger · 153 Wis. 2d 121 - State v. Johnson

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

  1. “The guilty verdicts allowed the court to infer that the jury found more credible other testimony, such as Benes' scrutiny of UDAs, Pierce's QuickBooks files, invoices, cancelled checks, and bank statements. B. Five Counts of Theft by Fraud ¶25 The theft-by-fraud statute, WIS. STAT. § 943.20(1)(d), makes it a crime to obtain”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “title to property of another person by intentionally deceiving the person with a false representation which is known to be false, made with intent to defraud, and which does defraud the person to whom it is made.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[C]ourts will not ordinarily render advisory opinions where the questions propounded have not arisen and may never arise.”
    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.