162 Wis. 2d 698 - State v. RRE’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 184 Wis. 2d 492 - In Interest of Angel Lace M. (1994), 215 Wis. 2d 459 - GMAC Mortgage Corp. v. Gisvold (1998)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 82 Wis. 2d 565 - Karow v. Milwaukee County Civil Service Commission · 72 Wis. 2d 200 - State v. Rosen · 122 Wis. 2d 65 - State Ex Rel. Watts v. Combined Community Services Board of Milwaukee County · Worachek v. Stephenson Town School District · 153 Wis. 2d 75 - Eby v. Kozarek
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the use of the word 'shall' in a statute suggests that the provision is mandatory, this court has often held that statutory time limits are directory despite the use of the word 'shall.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[s]hall' will be construed as directory if necessary to carry out the intent of the legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the objectives sought to be accomplished by the statute, its history, the consequences which would follow from the alternative interpretations, and whether a penalty is imposed for its violation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.