Davidson v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 79 Wis. 2d 97 - State Ex Rel. Althouse v. City of Madison · Harris v. Cassia County · Bowles v. Pro Indiviso, Inc. · Gumprecht v. City of Coeur D'Alene · City of Rocky Ford v. Brown
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Djistinguished from a difference or dispute of a hypothetical or abstract character; from one that is academic or moot____The controversy must be definite and concrete, touching the legal relations of the parties having adverse legal interests ____It must be a real and substantial controversy admitting of specific relief through a decree of a conclusive character, as distinguished from an opinion advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts.”
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.