90 Wis. 2d 110 - State v. Dronso’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Mary Gormley v. Director, Connecticut State Department of Adult Probation (1980), State v. Thompson (1985)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Coates v. City of Cincinnati · Gooding v. Wilson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(a) It shall be unlawful for any person with intent to harass or abuse another by means of telephone to: "(1) Make any comment, request, suggestion or proposal which is obscene; or "(2) Make a telephone call, whether or not conversation ensues, without disclosing his identity and with intent to harass any person at the called number; or "(3) Make or cause the telephone of another repeatedly or continuously to ring, with intent to harass any person at the called number; or "(4) Make repeated telephone calls, during which conversation ensues, with intent to harass any person at the called number; or "(5) Threaten to commit a crime against any person or property. "(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly permit any telephone under his control to be used for any purpose prohibited by this section. "(c) Any offense committed under this section may be deemed to have occurred at the place at which the telephone call was made, or the place at which the telephone called was received. "(d) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemean- or, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both fined and imprisoned.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'a businessman ... [to] another to protest failure to perform a contractual obligation'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“so as to render them constitutional whenever possible.”
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.