Bjerke v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2024
7 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 Fabio v. Bellomo · Springrose v. Willmore · 173 Wis. 2d 681 - Michelle T. Ex Rel. Sumpter v. Crozier · McGee by and Through McGee v. Chalfant · Lubbers v. Anderson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reflects the feeling of society in general that sexual contact by adults with children under 16 is reprehensible whether or not the child consents, because at that age, the child should be deemed incapable of giving consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Madden“[S]exual abuse of a child under the age of 16-a crime often referred to as statutory rape[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Madden
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.