96 Wis. 2d 183 - John v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 144 Wis. 2d 388 - State v. Schumacher (1988), Aicher Ex Rel. LaBarge v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund (2000)
65 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Toussie v. United States · United States v. Kissel · United States v. Cores · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik · Duncan v. State
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The criminal statutes of limitations serve a number of functions but the primary purpose is to protect the accused from having to defend himself against charges of remote misconduct. A corollary purpose is to ensure that criminal prosecutions will be based on evidence that is of recent origin. It also assures that law enforcement officials will act promptly to investigate and prosecute criminal activity. This helps to preserve the integrity of the decision-making process in the trial of criminal cases.” (Emphasis added.) It would make little sense to allow the State to obtain a conviction on a misdemeanor offense on which the statute of limitations has run due solely to the fact that the misdemeanor charge constituted a lesser included offense in a timely brought prosecution for a felony offense. Such a result would undermine a legislative enactment and do little to encourage the prompt investigation and prosecution' of criminal activity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"`In contrast to the instantaneous nature of most crimes, a continuing offense is one which consists of a course of conduct enduring over an extended period of time. Note, Statute of Limitations in Criminal Law: A Penetrable Barrier to Prosecution , 102 Pa. L. Rev. 630, 641-642 (1954).' John v. State , 96 Wis.2d 183 , 188 , 291 N.W.2d 502 , 505”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“If any person obtains ... assistance ... on the basis of facts stated to the authorities charged with the responsibility of furnishing assistance and fails to notify said authorities within ten days of any change in the facts as originally stated and continues to receive assistance ... such failure to notify shall be considered a fraud ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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