215 Wis. 2d 487 - State v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County (2004), Seider v. O'CONNELL (2000)
107 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. American Trucking Associations · United States v. Russell · West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey · Direct Sales Co. v. United States · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For purposes of statutory interpretation or construction, the common and approved usage of words may be established by consulting dictionary definitions.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'When aid to construction of the meaning of words, as used in the statute, is available, there certainly can be no 'rule of law' which forbids its use, however clean the words may appear on 'superficial examination.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]y using this approach to statutory interpretation, judges can acknowledge and deal with interpretive problems that arise from the inherent ambiguity of language as well as the limits of our linguistic capabilities.”
2 later decisions 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.