Servonitz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably 122 Wis. 2d 65 - State Ex Rel. Watts v. Combined Community Services Board of Milwaukee County (1985), 36 Wis. 2d 96 - State Ex Rel. La Follette v. Reuter (1967)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Ex parte Siebold · People Ex Rel. Tweed v. . Liscomb · State ex rel. Durner v. Huegin · Nunnemacher v. State · State v. Whitcom
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In considering the subject we must bear in mind that the policy of classification is a matter wholly within legislative discretion, and that whether there is room for the classification made in any given case is primarily a legislative question and can never become a judicial one except for the purpose of determining, in any given situation, whether legislative action passed the boundaries of reason, reasonable doubts to be resolved in the negative.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Potokar
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.