Linzmeyer v. Forcey’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District (2010), Zellner v. Cedarburg School District (2007)
2 federal appellate · 53 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 State Ex Rel. Youmans v. Owens · 89 Wis. 2d 417 - Newspapers, Inc. v. Breier · 116 Wis. 2d 388 - Hathaway v. Joint School District No. 1 · 202 Wis. 2d 178 - Woznicki v. Erickson · 199 Wis. 2d 768 - Wisconsin Newspress, Inc. v. School District of Sheboygan Falls
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll persons are entitled to the greatest possible information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts of those officers and employees who represent them.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“A 'record' subject to the Public Records Law is 'any material on which . . . information is recorded or preserved . . . which has been created or is being kept by an authority.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he public interest in protecting individuals' privacy and reputation arises from the public effects of the failure to honor the individual's privacy interests, and not the individual's concern about embarrassment.”
3 later decisions 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.