State v. Peterson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that civil rules of pleading, not criminal rales, apply to traffic offenses punishable by civil forfeiture
• holding that a circuit court may amend pleadings on its own motion
• holding that a circuit court may amend pleadings on its own motion
• “[T]he legislature intended that violations of state traffic laws involving forfeitures be treated as civil offenses .... ”
• stating the same with regard to the federal rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rosenthal v. National Produce Co., Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1990-04-18· cited 80×
• State v. Patrick H. Dalton
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2018-07-03· cited 66×
• County of Racine v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1984-12-12· cited 42×
• State v. Kramsvogel
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1985-05-29· cited 33×
• State v. Brown
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1982-04-27· cited 31×
• American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees Local 1901 v. Brown County
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1988-12-14· cited 23×
• Larry v. Harris
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2008-07-09· cited 21×
• C.L. v. Olson
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1987-05-21· cited 15×
• Schultz v. Trascher
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2001-10-02· cited 14×
• Harmann v. Schulke
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1988-10-26· cited 13×
• County of Walworth v. Rohner
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1982-10-05· cited 10×
• United States v. Bradley J. Devenport
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-10-30· cited 9×
• State v. King
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1994-09-20· cited 9×
• Smith v. Long
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1993-08-17· cited 8×
• State v. Naydihor
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1992-03-11· cited 3×
• Opinion No. Oag 61-88, (1988)
  Wisconsin Attorney General Reports· 1988-10-14· cited 1×
• Oconomowoc Area School District v. Gregory L. Cota
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2024-01-10· cited 1×
• Opinion No. Oag 41-82, (1982)
  Wisconsin Attorney General Reports· 1982-06-23
• Larkin v. Johnston
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2015-10-15
• Lowell Management Services, Inc. v. Matthew D Ruecker and Dawn M Ruecker Revocable Trust
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2026-03-25

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Gerard M. Monod and Alys Monod v. Futura, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Highlands, Inc., a Colorado Corporation, and Whipple Van Ness Jones
  Tenth Circuit· 1969-09-26· cited 82×
• Vargas v. McNamara
  First Circuit· 1979-10-30· cited 63×
• James C. Ellis and Wanda Lou Ellis, His Wife v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company
  Tenth Circuit· 1979-11-13· cited 59×
• International Harvester Credit Corp. v. East Coast Truck
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-02-25· cited 56×
• George Eric Rosden v. A. Leuthold
  D.C. Circuit· 1960-01-19· cited 52×
• State v. Duda
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1973-10-02· cited 25×
• City of Neenah v. Krueger
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1932-01-12· cited 22×
• Cox v. Fremont County Public Building Authority
  Tenth Circuit· 1969-09-03· cited 21×
• Wiegel v. Sentry Indemnity Co.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1980-02-07· cited 20×
• City of Milwaukee v. Wuky
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1965-03-02· cited 17×
• McLeod v. Stevens
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-02-29· cited 15×
• In re Grunwell
  Customs and Patent Appeals· 1979-11-15· cited 4×
• State v. Peterson
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1981-04-07· cited 1×