State ex rel. Wickham v. Nygaard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 15 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Nor shall the compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office. ’ ’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martin, Com'r of Revenue v. Wolfford · Gordy v. Dennis

2. “[t]he members of this court are not directly interested in this lawsuit, but it is none the less true that the settlement of the main question of law involved will affect the majority of the court. If it is settled that Judge Wickham's salary is exempt from assessment for income tax, then the salary of every other public officer is exempt during his term, where such term began before the passage of the Income Tax Law. The question is: Does the fact that the members of the court, or a majority of them, may or will be affected in a financial way by the decision which the court is called upon to make disqualify them from acting?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 340 Wis. 2d 292 - Wisconsin Judicial Commission v. Prosser

3. ““We are not at liberty to rewrite this clause so as to read that taxes may be ‘imposed on incomes, except where the income consists of a salary received by a public officer.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Green v. du Pont