Knight v. Milwaukee County’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Liebovich v. Minnesota Insurance (2008), Russ Ex Rel. Schwartz v. Russ (2007)
28 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 Thompson v. Oklahoma · 26 Cal. 4th 519 - Conservatorship of Wendland · Doe v. Gallinot · 122 Wis. 2d 65 - State Ex Rel. Watts v. Combined Community Services Board of Milwaukee County · 209 Wis. 2d 655 - Coutts v. Wisconsin Retirement Board
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.
“The best interests of a ward and the ward's wishes expressed while competent may overlap. Ultimately, however, 'best interests' is a standard that is not necessarily coextensive with what an individual has chosen or would choose were she competent to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to assist persons interested in establishing non-court regimes for the management of their affairs in the event of later incompetence or disability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whatever an agent does in the lawful prosecution of the transaction entrusted to him [or her] is the act of the principal”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shister v. Patel
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.