85 Wis. 2d 36 - State v. Kenyon’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 174 Wis. 2d 191 - Village of Shorewood v. Steinberg (1993), 98 Wis. 2d 569 - State v. Braunsdorf (1980)
107 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 United States v. Cowan · 42 Wis. 2d 368 - State Ex Rel. Kurkierewicz v. Cannon · 55 Wis. 2d 168 - Taylor v. State · 75 Wis. 2d 93 - In Matter of Estate of Walker · Weather-Tite Co. of Milwaukee, Inc. v. Lepper
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prosecutorial discretion to terminate a pending prosecution in Wisconsin is subject to the independent authority of the trial court to grant or refuse a motion to dismiss 'in the public interest.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Conger · State v. Ringer“the public interest in allowing the prosecutor sufficient freedom to exercise his [or her] legitimate discretion, to employ to the best effect his [or her] experience and training, and to make the subjective judgment implicit in the broad grant of authority under sec. 59.47, Stats.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““While the concerns expressed by the court for the defendant were legitimate and proper and go to the public interest to a limited degree, there must also be some concern with the public’s right to have the crimes actually committed fairly prosecuted and to the protection of the rights of third persons. The court should consider the various elements as they appear and then exercise its discretion.””
2 later decisions 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.