State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1952
4 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 Menasha Wooden Ware Co. v. Town of Winter · Application of Milwaukee Chapter, Izaak Walton League of America · Quayle v. Bayfield County · Bissell Lumber Co. v. Northwestern Casualty & Surety Co. · Town of Swiss v. United States National Bank
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A city attorney or a city engineer not elected but appointed by the city council, might be held not tO' be an officer in the sense stated, but in giving advice or passing upon the legal aspects or the engineering features involved, would be acting for the city and as the agent of the city in determining in respect to those matters and would, it would seem, be covered by the statute.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““348.28 (1) Any officer, agent, or clerk of the state or of any county, town, school district, school board, or city therein, or in the employment thereof, or any member of any town board, . . . who shall have, reserve, or acquire any pecuniary interest, directly or indirectly, present or prospective, absolute or conditional, in any way or manner, in any purchase or sale of any personal or real property or thing in action, or in any contract, proposal, or bid in relation to the same, or in relation to any public service, or in any tax sale, tax title, bill of sale, deed, mortgage, certificate, account, order, warrant, or receipt made by, to, or with him in his official capacity or employment, or in any public or official service, or who shall make any contract or pledge, or contract any indebtedness or liability, or do any other act in his official capacity, or in any public or official service not authorized or required by law, . . . shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or in the state prison not more than five years, or fined not exceeding $500.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““As Bennett had no legal duty as such agent or clerk of the city to act, and did not act for it in any manner in making the purchase by the city, the fact that he had a pecuniary interest in the property purchased and the commission to be paid to the broker did not bring him within the condemnation of sec. 348.28, . . .””
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.