Schultz v. Milwaukee County’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2007
7 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 Nunnemacher v. State · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Donald · State ex rel. Hudd v. Timme · State ex rel. Kennedy v. Brunst · State ex rel. Atwood v. Johnson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Article VI) Section 4. Sheriffs, coroners, register of deeds, district attorneys, and all other county officers except judicial officers and chief executive officers, shall be chosen by the electors of the respective counties once in every two years. The offices of coroner and surveyor in counties having a population of 500,000 or more are abolished [ at the conclusion of the terms of office during which this amendment is adopted ] * . Counties not having a population of 500,000 shall have the option of retaining the elective office of coroner or institutina a medical examinem. Two or more counties may institute a joint medical examiner system . * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the holding of inquests was not such a distinctive and characteristic feature of the office of coroner at the time of the adoption of the consti tution as to deprive the legislature of power to create another office and impose the duty to hold inquests upon it.”
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.