217 Wis. 2d 429 - State v. Busch’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Orion Flight Services, Inc. v. Basler Flight Service (2006), DaimlerChrysler v. Labor and Industry Review Commission (2007)
52 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 Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co. · 207 Wis. 2d 258 - State v. Smith · 101 Wis. 2d 472 - Law Enforcement Standards Board v. Village of Lyndon Station · 128 Wis. 2d 15 - State v. Nordness · 190 Wis. 2d 650 - Carlson & Erickson Builders, Inc. v. Lampert Yards, Inc.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an administrative agency promulgates regulations pursuant to a power delegated by the legislature, we construe those regulations 'together with the statute to make, if possible, an effectual piece of legislation in harmony with common sense and sound reason.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n administrative construction of the agency's own regulations is controlling... unless plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When interpreting an administrative regulation, we generally use the same rules of construction and interpretation as applicable to statutes.”
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.