169 Wis. 2d 153 - State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993), Terry v. Reno (1996)
2 federal appellate · 26 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Hishon v. King & Spalding · Buckley v. Valeo · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. O'Brien · Roth v. United States
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) If a person does all of the following, the penalties for the underlying crime are increased....: (a) Commits a crime under ehs. 939 to 948. (b) Intentionally selects the person against whom the crime under par. (a) is committed or selects the property which is damaged or otherwise affected by the crime under par. (a) because of the race, religion, color, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry of that person or the owner or occupant of that property.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he statute punishes the 'because of' aspect of the defendant's selection, the reason the defendant selected the victim, the motive behind the selection.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“hated John Smith and wished he were dead”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.