84 Wis. 2d 397 - Will v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2007
16 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Williams v. Illinois · Tate v. Short · Morris v. Schoonfield · 62 Wis. 2d 250 - State Ex Rel. Haskins v. County Court of Dodge
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Pedersen, we set out the following procedure to be followed in cases where the defendant claims he is unable to pay a fine: (1) We encouraged trial courts to follow a practice of ascertaining the defendant’s ability to pay a fine at the time of sentencing. At this time the court should determine an amount and payment schedule in keeping with the defendant’s means. (2) If, thereafter, the defendant is unable to pay the fine imposed, he has the burden to apply to the court for relief, either within the time given by the court for payment or prior to commitment to jail for nonpayment pursuant to sec. 973.07, Stats. In addition, we also emphasized that, in a case where a fine once imposed becomes beyond the offender’s means, within ninety days of sentencing the trial court may change or modify the sentence. In Peder-sen we observed that taken together these procedures give the trial court sufficient flexibility to avoid unconstitutionally imprisoning the offender who is unable to pay the fine. [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one who has been convicted of a crime and fined is not to be imprisoned in satisfaction of the fine or in lieu thereof if he is unable to pay the fine.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the equal protection clause restricts the state's power to collect a fine from a defendant without the means to pay”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.