128 Wis. 2d 110 - State v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 196 Wis. 2d 817 - State v. Rogers (1995), 151 Wis. 2d 354 - State v. Truax (1989)
2 federal appellate · 196 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 · California v. Trombetta · 117 Wis. 2d 529 - Ball v. District No. 4, Area Board · 124 Wis. 2d 525 - State v. Dyess · 115 Wis. 2d 334 - State v. Pharr
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an appellate court intentionally takes up, discusses and decides a question germane to a controversy, such a decision is not a dictum but is a judicial act of the court which it will thereafter recognize as a binding decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the trial court fails to adequately explain the reasons for its decision, we will independently review the record to determine whether it provides a reasonable basis for the trial court's discretionary ruling.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court may sustain a lower court's holding on a theory or on reasoning not presented to the lower court.”
2 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.