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← 2007 WI 56 - McNeil v. Hansen

McNeil v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
1
states following
April 2025
most recently cited

51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Solowicz v. Forward Geneva National, LLC (2010), Brunton v. NUVELL CREDIT CORP. (2010)

51 state decisions

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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. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County · 136 Wis. 2d 304 - Green Spring Farms v. Kersten · Seider v. O'CONNELL · 95 Wis. 2d 173 - Mulder v. Acme-Cleveland Corp. · 43 Wis. 2d 335 - Lukaszewicz v. Concrete Research, Inc.

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'The interpretation and application of a statute to an undisputed set of facts are questions of law that we review independently.'”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “in the context in which it is used; not in isolation but as part of a whole; in relation to the language of surrounding or closely-related statutes; and reasonably, to avoid absurd or unreasonable results.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[S]tatutory interpretation 'begins with the language of the statute. If the meaning of the statute is plain, we ordinarily stop the inquiry.'”
    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.