105 Wis. 2d 231 - State v. Clausen’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 128 Wis. 2d 110 - State v. Holt (1985), 122 Wis. 2d 158 - Tahtinen v. MSI Insurance (1985)
178 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · 90 Wis. 2d 408 - Bucyrus-Erie Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations · 74 Wis. 2d 425 - State v. Lenarchick · 75 Wis. 2d 411 - State v. Asfoor · Kink v. Combs
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] statute should be construed to give effect to its leading idea, and the entire statute should be brought into harmony with the statute's purpose.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are to be strictly construed in favor of the accused,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statutes cannot be construed in derogation of common sense”
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.