16 Wis. 2d 154 - State v. Ramsay’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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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.

1. “"Sec. 247.23 (1), Stats., which authorizes the court during the pendency of a divorce action to provide by order for the temporary custody of children of the parties, unlike sec. 247.24, does not spell out the persons and agencies to whom the court may award such custody. It merely authorizes the court to make such a temporary custody order `as in its discretion shall be deemed just and reasonable.' While sec. 247.23 (1) may grant broader custody powers to the court than sec. 247.24, the court cannot compel any agency, public or private, to accept such awarded custody against the will of those charged with the administration of the agency, absent some specific statute so requiring."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Opinion No. Oag 71-77, (1977)

2. “Every court of record shall have power to punish, as for a criminal contempt, persons guilty of either of the following acts and no other: (3) Wilful disobedience of any process or order lawfully issued or made by it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tensfeldt v. Haberman

3. “[t]he judge who issued the disobeyed order or process should give consideration to whether he should take the discretionary step of disqualifying himself in order to permit another judge to try the contempt issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 83 Wis. 2d 808 - State v. Washington