State v. Helmann’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1971
3 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 Clark v. Barnard · State v. Corron · Koepp v. National Enameling & Stamping Co. · City of Paducah v. Jones · State v. Bridges
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As we have said, the required condition of the bond covers many transgressions, which experience evidently showed at the time of the enactment of the statute, were liable to occur and should be guarded against by a general penalty. Many were not provided for in any other way. . . . On the other hand, if full effect were not given to the statute, there would be the absurd result of many features of the condition of the bond being wholly without remedy.” State v. Helmann, 163 Wis. 639, 644 , 158 N. W. 286 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hackbarth“* * * That does not mean that such a statute should be so construed for the purpose of minimizing its effect; but be so construed to effect the legislative intent. The sole office of judicial construction of a statute is to give efficiency to the purpose of the lawmaking power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If more than one judgment shall have been recovered the court, in its discretion, may apply the proceeds of said bond toward the satisfaction of said several judgments in whole or in part in such manner as it may see fit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hackbarth
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.