205 Wis. 2d 295 - Santiago v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2010
18 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Parratt v. Taylor · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Sandin v. Conner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absolute, certain and imperative, involving merely the performance of a specific task when the law imposes, prescribes and defines the time, mode and occasion for its performance ... [such] that nothing remains for judgment or discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“CRC is not a release from institutional life, but an extension of it. Section 301.046, STATS., establishes the community residential confinement program as a correctional institution within the Department of Corrections. DOC "confine[s] prisoners in their places of residence or other places designated by the department." Section 301.046(1). CRC participants are "prisoners" and "inmates." Section 301.046; Wis. Adm. CODE § DOC 327. CRC inmates must "wear an electronic device continuously on the inmate's person." WIS. Adm. Code § DOC 327.09(l)(q). They . . . remain in the legal custody of, and in institutional status with, the Department of Corrections. Section 301.046(2); WlS. Adm. CODE § DOC 327.07(5).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had no liberty interest in his CRC status, [and] he cannot recover under § 1983 for loss of that status and the resulting return to WCA.”
1 later decision 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.