152 Wis. 2d 113 - State v. McManus’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably 197 Wis. 2d 279 - State v. Post (1995), 197 Wis. 2d 252 - State v. Carpenter (1995)
2 federal appellate · 175 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 Graham v. Richardson · Frontiero v. Richardson · Lalli v. Lalli · 58 Wis. 2d 32 - State Ex Rel. Hammermill Paper Co. v. La Plante · 81 Wis. 2d 491 - State Ex Rel. Strykowski v. Wilkie
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be sustained unless it is 'patently arbitrary' and bears no rational relationship to a legitimate government interest.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every presumption must be indulged to sustain the law if at all possible and, wherever doubt exists as to the legislative enactment's constitutionality, it must be resolved in favor of constitutionality.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Equal protection does not deny a state the power to treat persons within its jurisdiction differently; rather, the state retains broad discretion to create classifications so long as the classifications have a reasonable basis. The fact a statutory classification results in some inequity, however, does not provide sufficient grounds for invalidating a legislative enactment. Where, as here, a suspect classification is not alleged, the legislative enactment "must be sustained unless it is 'patently arbitrary' and bears no rational relationship to a legitimate government interest." "If the classification is reasonable and practical in relation to the objective, that is sufficient and doubts must be resolved in favor of the reasonableness of the classification."”
11 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.