97 Wis. 2d 193 - State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably 106 Wis. 2d 185 - State v. Hoffman (1982), 117 Wis. 2d 351 - Labor & Farm Party v. Elections Board (1984)
69 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 Gerstein v. Pugh · 75 Wis. 2d 411 - State v. Asfoor · 85 Wis. 2d 36 - State v. Kenyon · 40 Wis. 2d 223 - State Ex Rel. Evanow v. Seraphim · 45 Wis. 2d 432 - State Ex Rel. Cullen v. Ceci
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Who is charged?; (2) What is the person charged with?; (3) When and where did the alleged offense take place?; (4) Why is this particular person being charged?; and (5) Who says so? or How reliable is the informant?”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]ven when a statute appears unambiguous on its face, it can be rendered ambiguous by its interaction with and its relation to other statutes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . The uniform traffic citation and complaint is adequate to confer personal jurisdiction in cases where the object is to collect a forfeiture but it is not adequate, and we conclude that it was not intended to apply when a crime is charged. . . .” State v. White, 97 Wis. 2d 193, 201 , 295 N.W.2d 346 (1980).”
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.