Swanke v. Oneida County’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably 97 Wis. 2d 435 - Hunter v. School District of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau (1980), 95 Wis. 2d 319 - Dairy Equipment Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations (1980)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Wheeler v. Jackson · Lowery v. Garfield County · Hayes v. Douglas County · 107 N.J. Eq. 132 - Wittes v. Repko · Baker v. State Land Office Board
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`. . . a law will not be construed as retroactive unless the act clearly, by express language or necessary implication, indicates that the legislature intended a retroactive application. The rule is the converse of the general principle that statutes are to operate prospectively. . . ."'”
4 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.