206 Wis. 2d 30 - State v. McMaster’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2019
17 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 United States v. Halper · Austin v. United States · United States v. Ursery · Department of Revenue of Mont. v. Kurth Ranch · United States v. Ward
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general purpose behind laws relating to operating while under the influence of intoxicants is 'to get drunk drivers off the road as expeditiously as possible and with as little possible disruption of the court's calendar.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clear policy of the statute is to facilitate the identification of drunken drivers and their removal from the highways.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court must consider 1) whether the legislature intended [the statute] to be a remedial civil sanction, and 2) whether there are aspects of [the statute] that are so punitive either in effect or nature as to render the overall purpose to be one of punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.