McNeil v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
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
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.
“'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“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“[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.