74 Wis. 2d 390 - West v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably State v. Coe (1977), 104 Wis. 2d 247 - State v. Drogsvold (1981)
34 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 Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · United States v. Watson · Chemehuevi Tribe of Indians v. Federal Power Commission · Foster v. California · 55 Wis. 2d 597 - State v. Pires
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““946.62 Concealing identity. Whoever commits a crime while his usual appearance has been concealed, disguised or altered, with intent to make it less likely that he will be identified with the crime, may in addition to the maximum punishment fixed for such crime, in case of conviction for a misdemeanor be imprisoned not to exceed one year in county jail, and in case of conviction for a felony be imprisoned not to exceed 5 years.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“founded upon the actions of police which are considered reasonable. The element of reasonableness is supplied by the compelling need to assist the victim or apprehend those responsible, not the need to secure evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . (1) A law enforcement officer may arrest a person when: “(d) There are reasonable grounds to believe that the person is committing or has committed a crime.””
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.