State v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 144 Wis. 2d 576 - City of Madison v. Madison Professional Police Officers Ass'n (1988), Lanoue v. Fireman's Fund American Insurance Co. (1979)
26 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. Carroll · Municipal Airport Authority of Fargo v. Halland · Gleson v. Thompson · 21 Wis. 2d 411 - City of Milwaukee v. Johnston · State v. Tjaden
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not the function of the supreme court to substitute its judgment for that of the jury but instead only to examine the evidence presented in order to determine whether it supports the verdict and whether the defendant received a fair trial.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Erickson · State v. Fuchs““3. Instructions must be considered as a whole, and if when so considered, they correctly advise the jury as to the law, it is sufficient, although a portion thereof standing alone may be insufficient or erroneous.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The phrase ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor’ is a flexible term. The mere fact that the driver of a motor vehicle may have consumed intoxicating liquor does not necessarily render him ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor.’ The circumstances and effect must be considered. On the other hand, the driver of a motor vehicle need not be intoxicated or in a state of drunkenness to be ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor.’ This expression covers not only all the well-known and easily recognized conditions and degrees of intoxication, but also any abnormal mental or physical condition which is the result of indulging to any degree in intoxicating liquors, and which tends to deprive a driver of the clearness of intellect or control of himself which he would otherwise possess. Accordingly, if intoxicating liquor has affected the nervous system, brain, or muscles of a driver of a motor vehicle so as to impair, to any appreciable degree, his normal ability to operate a motor vehicle, he is ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor.’ Whether the defendant was ‘under the influence of intoxicating liquor’ is a question of fact for you to determine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Erickson
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.