116 Wis. 2d 122 - State v. Beno’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Davenport v. Garcia (1992), State v. Huebner (2000)
56 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 United States v. Nixon · Tenney v. Brandhove · Michel v. United States · United States v. National Bank · United States v. Bryan
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(2) The historical analysis of the constitutional debates and of what practices were in existence in 1848, which the court may reasonably presume were also known to the framers of the 1848 constitution, see State ex rel. Zimmerman v. Dammann (1930) 201 Wis. 84, 88, 89 , 228 N.W. 593 ; and State ex rel. Comstock [v. Joint School District, 65 Wis. 631 , 27 N.W. 829 (1886)]; and”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court's task of defining the bounds of the legislative privilege is difficult. The court must ensure that legislative privileges are broad enough to protect the integrity of the legislative process, but not so broad as to endow a legislator with unlimited absolute personal immunity from substantive liability or from any obligation to testify in a judicial proceeding. Judicial action may be needed to serve broad public interests, as when the court acts not in derogation of the separation of powers but to maintain the proper checks and balances or to vindicate the public interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n interpreting a constitutional provision, the court turns to three sources in determining the provision's meaning: the plain meaning of the words in the context used; the constitutional debates and the practices in existence at the time of the writing of the constitution; and the earliest interpretation of the provision by the legislature as manifested in the first law passed following adoption.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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