Belleau v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions

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

1. “[E]ven if we credit the 8 and 16 percent figures the plaintiff can't be thought just a harmless old guy. Readers of this opinion who are parents of young children should ask themselves whether they should worry that there are people in their community who have 'only' a 16 percent or an 8 percent probability of molesting young children——bearing in mind the lifelong psychological scars that such molestation frequently inflicts.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 407 Wis. 2d 321 - State v. Corey T. Rector · State v. C. G.

2. “persons convicted of crimes, especially very serious crimes such as sexual offenses against minors, and especially very serious crimes that have high rates of recidivism such as sex crimes, have a diminished reasonable constitutionally protected expectation of privacy.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Gordon · 382 Wis. 2d 774 - Kaufman v. Walker

3. “if civil commitment is not punishment, as the Supreme Court has ruled, then a fortiori , neither is having to wear an anklet monitor.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 381 Wis. 2d 492 - State v. DeAnthony K. Muldrow · 377 Wis. 2d 223 - State v. Muldrow