193 Wis. 2d 299 - Reginald D. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 219 Wis. 2d 615 - State Ex Rel. Warren v. Schwarz (1998), State v. Knapp (2005)
54 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 Kent v. United States · Breed v. Jones · 152 Wis. 2d 113 - State v. McManus · 26 Wis. 2d 43 - State Ex Rel. Sonneborn v. Sylvester · 115 Wis. 2d 220 - State Ex Rel. La Crosse Tribune v. Circuit Court for La Crosse County
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All people are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; to secure these rights, governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the content of what government may do to people under the guise of the law.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Equal protection does not deny a state the power to treat persons within its jurisdiction differently; rather, the state retains broad discretion to create classifications so long as the classifications have a reasonable basis. The fact a statutory classification results in some inequity. . .does not provide suffi cient grounds for invalidating a legislative enactment. Where. . .a suspect classification is not alleged, the legislative enactment "must be sustained unless it is 'patently arbitrary' and bears no rational relationship to a legitimate government interest." "If the classification is reasonable and practical in relation to the objective, that is sufficient and doubts must be resolved in favor of the reasonableness of the classification."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.