148 Wis. 2d 204 - State v. Meddaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2012
14 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 Korematsu v. United States · 105 Wis. 2d 231 - State v. Clausen · 63 Wis. 2d 109 - Prue v. State · 77 Wis. 2d 225 - State v. Evans · 54 Wis. 2d 61 - State v. Duffy
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“: We agree that one of Webster's definitions of the term”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Most of the penal statutes of this state grant the trial court discretion to either impose a sentence of imprisonment within prescribed statutory limitations or to impose a period probation pursuant to the provisions of sec. 973.09 , Stats. This authority is generally indicated by the language "may be imprisoned," which precedes the limitation on the period *Page 78 of imprisonment in the particular provision. The legislature has enacted but few statutory provisions comparable to the one in the instant case, which expressly provide that a person convicted thereunder "shall be imprisoned." If probation were to be available in either case, the legislature would have no purpose in employing the word "may" in some cases and the word "shall" in others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When it provided for "imprisonment" of persons convicted of multiple drunk driving offenses in sec. 346.65 (2)(c), Stats., the legislature gave no indication that it intended that word as meaning anything other than its accepted legal definition — incarceration pursuant to the imposition of a sentence.”
1 later decision 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.