State v. Volk’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County (2004), State v. Grady (2007)
27 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 Seider v. O'CONNELL · 216 Wis. 2d 768 - State v. Sullivan · 162 Wis. 2d 883 - State v. Martin · 155 Wis. 2d 552 - State v. Eichman · Matter of Discipline of Hendrickson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f statutory language is ambiguous, that is, 'if reasonable minds could differ as to its meaning,' we look to the scope, history, context, subject matter, and purpose of the statute to help establish its proper interpretation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he term of extended supervision that follows the term of confinement in prison may not be less than 25% of the length of the term of confinement in prison imposed under par. (b).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The interpretation and application of a statute present questions of law which we review de novo.”
2 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.