State Ex Rel. Curtis v. Steinkellner’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1971
16 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 Thornhill v. Alabama · American Federation of Labor v. Swing · Ekern v. McGovern · Van Gilder v. City of Madison · McCarthy v. Steinkellner
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . we call attention to the nature of the public department of which petitioners are members. It is what might loosely be called a ‘semimilitary’ organization where discipline is of the greatest importance and where unified action is essential. The rules of the department regulating its discipline have existed for years. They have a reasonable relation to the needs of the department and the department itself is a very powerful factor in public safety. It can strongly be argued that acceptance of employment in such department involves acceptance of the disciplinary regulations adopted by the department and precludes a later objection to the character of any particular regulation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huhnke v. Wischer““Sec. 62.03 (1), Stats., provides that ch. 62, Stats., shall not apply to cities of the first class under special charter. Ch. 586, Laws of 1911, entitled, ‘an act to create section 959-46d of the statutes, relating to the creation of a board of police and fire commissioners in cities of the first class, providing for the duties thereof and the duties of chiefs of the police and fire departments in such cities,’ is plainly applicable to the city of Milwaukee and ch. 62, Stats., is not so applicable.””
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.