Bruno v. Milwaukee County’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Cranes & Doves v. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (2004), Teschendorf v. State Farm Ins. Companies (2006)
182 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 201 Wis. 2d 274 - UFE Inc. v. Labor & Industry Review Commission · 118 Wis. 2d 730 - Standard Theatres, Inc. v. State, Department of Transportation · 162 Wis. 2d 883 - State v. Martin · 94 Wis. 2d 153 - County of Columbia v. Bylewski · 118 Wis. 2d 526 - State v. Lossman
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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If this process of analysis yields a plain, clear statutory meaning, then there is no ambiguity, and the statute is applied according to this ascertainment of its meaning.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“capable of being understood by reasonably well-informed persons in two or more senses[,]”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]tatutory interpretation involves the ascertainment of meaning, not a search for ambiguity.”
7 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.