Michael v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2015
19 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 Difronzo v. United States · 129 Wis. 2d 239 - State v. Williquette · State v. Zobel · Palmer v. State · State v. Walden
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Steven] Michael had a legal duty to aid and assist his daughter if she was under the threat or risk of physical damage or assault ... [and] that as a result of his failure to act, that his daughter suffered serious physical injury.” 8 . Michael’s claim that the connection between his indictment and conviction was not sufficiently clear to allow him to assert double jeopardy, if ever again charged with the same offense, was also held to have”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michael v. State“Reasonable people may differ about the outer boundaries of a parent’s duty to protect his or her child from harm, and about the appropriateness of using the criminal law to enforce that duty at or near the outer boundaries.... However, the duty of a parent to protect a child from severe abuse such as occurred in this case is crystal clear. We conclude that the statute is not vague as applied to this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Strother v. State“either personally or as a person ... legally accountable for the conduct of another, did unlawfully and intentionally [i.e., knowingly] 2 perform an act that resulted in serious physical injury to [the Michaels’ infant daughter] under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, by fracturing [one of the child’s bones]. 3”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michael v. State
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.