82 Wis. 2d 262 - State v. Devitt’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2022
20 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 Bronston v. United States · State ex rel. La Follette v. Kohlee · 56 Wis. 2d 838 - Capt. Soma Boat Line, Inc. v. City of Wisconsin Dells · 146 W. Va. 810 - State v. Crowder · 69 Wis. 2d 642 - Liberty Loan Corp. & Affiliates v. Eis
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The felony false swearing statute is a statute of general application that can apply to a multitude of situations. There are instances where the filing of a sworn statement can be authorized by law but not required by law, such as an affidavit in support of a motion in a legal proceeding, or an affidavit or statement in support of an application for various forms of license. In these and like instances the sworn statement is not required but is authorized and designed to favorably influence the position of the person offering the statement. The purpose of the Corrupt Practice Act, as it was at the time in question, was not to authorize the filing of the financial statement but to require it to be done when an individual was a candidate for a nomination or election. If he was not required to do so, as the parties agree, the inadvertent filing should not subject him to a felony conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whoever under oath or affirmation makes or subscribes a false statement which the person does not believe is true is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“while false swearing alone cannot be perjury, perjury can be false swearing”
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.