101 Wis. 2d 79 - State v. MacHner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 102 Wis. 2d 461 - Grobarchik v. State (1981), State v. Jimothy A. Jenkins (2014)
38 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 46 Wis. 2d 93 - Hayes v. States · 54 Wis. 2d 61 - State v. Duffy · 69 Wis. 2d 60 - Drinkwater v. State · 39 Wis. 2d 342 - State Ex Rel. Schulter v. Roraff · 70 Wis. 2d 62 - Jones (Hollis) 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We understand the trial court’s dilemma, since it is clear that Chapter 975 did not provide for the situation which occurred here — an error in the initial depart mental evaluation giving rise to a commitment. Obviously, the court was reluctant to permit the offender to continue under the Chapter 975 commitment when the department had now concluded he was not a sex deviate, yet understandably the court was unwilling to discharge him, since he was still considered to be dangerous and in need of confinement. Despite this concern, and despite the fact that we do not view the court’s action as contrary to public policy, we are constrained to follow the terms of the Sex Crimes Act. Machner, 101 Wis. 2d at 86 , 303 N.W.2d at 637 (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is the legislative province to prescribe the punishment for a particular crime and the judicial province to impose that punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Skibinski
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.