211 Wis. 2d 397 - State v. Setagord’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Seider v. O'CONNELL (2000), State v. Gallion (2004)
200 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 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 1117
Relies on Russello v. United States · Bell v. United States · Reno v. Koray · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Copp Paving Company Inc · Newland v. Georgia
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute is ambiguous when it is capable of being understood in two or more different senses by reasonably well-informed persons.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutes are to be construed to avoid rendering any part of the statute meaningless or superfluous.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“so excessive and unusual and so disproportionate to the offense committed as to shock public sentiment and violate the judgment of reasonable people concerning what is right and proper under the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · State v. Gallion
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.