106 Wis. 2d 31 - State v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 227 Wis. 2d 758 - State v. Erickson (1999), 119 Ill. 2d 465 - People v. Walker (1988)
163 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Tumey v. State of Ohio · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Berger v. United States · Ward v. Village of Monroeville · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Wisconsin constitution creates three separate coordinate branches of government, no branch subordinate to the other, no branch to arrogate to itself control over the other except as is provided by the constitution, and no branch to exercise the power committed by the constitution to another.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[Ejndowed with all judicial powers essential to carry out the judicial functions delegated to them — These powers are known as incidental, implied, or inherent powers, all of which terms are used to describe those powers which must necessarily be used by the various departments of government in order that they may efficiently perform the functions imposed upon them by the people.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he executive power shall be vested in a governor”
6 later decisions 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.