139 Wis. 2d 171 - State v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 173 Wis. 2d 222 - State Ex Rel. Frederick v. McCaughtry (1992), 150 Wis. 2d 731 - Lindevig v. Dairy Equipment Co. (1989)
40 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 117 Wis. 2d 529 - Ball v. District No. 4, Area Board · 39 Wis. 2d 754 - State v. Hutnik · 118 Wis. 2d 526 - State v. Lossman · 119 Wis. 2d 414 - State v. Curbello-Rodriguez · 111 Wis. 2d 19 - County of Walworth v. Spalding
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is reasonable to presume that the legislature chose its terms carefully and precisely to express its meaning.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) Shall be fined . . . and imprisoned for not less than 30 days nor more than one year in the county jail . . . where the offense involved the use of a vehicle, equals 3 or more in a 5-year period. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the primary source of statutory construction is the language of the statute itself.”
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.