State v. Beaver Dam Area Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2020
24 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 v. Thiel · State Ex Rel. Youmans v. Owens · Chow v. State · 89 Wis. 2d 417 - Newspapers, Inc. v. Breier · Wenke Ex Rel. Laufenberg v. Gehl Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person may request advice from the attorney general as to the applicability”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Record" means any material on which written, drawn, [or] printed]] . . . information ... is recorded or preserved,.. ., which has been created or is being kept by an authority. "Record" includes, but is not limited to, handwritten, typed or printed pages,.... "Record" does not include drafts, notes, preliminary computations and like materials prepared for the originator's personal use . ..; materials which are purely the personal property of the custodian and have no relation to his or her office;....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) In recognition of the fact that a representative government of the American type is dependent upon an informed electorate, it is declared to be the policy of this state that the public is entitled to the fullest and most complete information regarding the affairs of government as is compatible with the conduct of governmental business.”
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.