101 Wis. 2d 387 - State v. Kruse’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 128 Wis. 2d 110 - State v. Holt (1985), 131 Wis. 2d 153 - State v. Fry (1986)
76 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 73 Wis. 2d 318 - State v. Wachsmuth · 69 Wis. 2d 60 - Drinkwater v. State · 77 Wis. 2d 166 - Bruneau v. State · 93 Wis. 2d 392 - Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity House Corp. v. City of Menomonie · Chase v. American Cartage Co.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is deemed the doctrine of the cases is that when a court of last resort intentionally takes up, discusses, and decides a question germane to, though not necessarily decisive of, the controversy, such decision is not a dictum but is a judicial act of the court which it will thereafter recognize as a binding decision.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where possible, 9The amendment cited Wis. Stat. § 895.71 , which has since been renumbered to Wis. Stat. § 895.442 . 18 No. 2021AP1054 statutory provisions dealing with the same subject matter should be interpreted 'in a manner that harmonizes them in order to give each full force and effect.' Further, '[a] construction of a statute rendering a portion of it meaningless must be avoided.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.