72 Wis. 2d 754 - State v. Van Meter’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 96 Wis. 2d 48 - State v. Rabe (1980), 217 Wis. 2d 392 - State v. Lechner (1998)
28 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 66 Wis. 2d 71 - City of Madison v. Nickel · 40 Wis. 2d 95 - Holesome v. State · 70 Wis. 2d 368 - Melby v. State · 69 Wis. 2d 92 - State v. George · State v. Apple
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires that it must be shown that the defendant was the operator of the vehicle, that he received a visual or audible signal from a traffic officer, or marked police vehicle, and that he knowingly fled or attempted to elude the traffic officer by willful or wanton disregard of the signal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause defendant has been convicted of two violations of the same statute, identity of legal elements is shown.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb . . . .”
2 later decisions 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.