149 Wis. 2d 403 - Fox v. Bock’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District (2010), Zellner v. Cedarburg School District (2007)
31 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 90 Wis. 2d 408 - Bucyrus-Erie Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations · State Ex Rel. Youmans v. Owens · 89 Wis. 2d 417 - Newspapers, Inc. v. Breier · 116 Wis. 2d 388 - Hathaway v. Joint School District No. 1 · Beckon v. Emery
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he denial of public access generally is contrary to the public interest, and only in an exceptional case may access be denied.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“means any material on which written, drawn, printed, spoken, visual or electromagnetic information is recorded or preserved, regardless of physical form or characteristics, which has been created or is being kept by an authority.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“drafts, notes, preliminary computations and like materials prepared for the originator's personal use or prepared by the originator in the name of a person for whom the originator is working.”
3 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.