Scharping v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 93 Wis. 2d 433 - Wirth v. Ehly (1980), 96 Wis. 2d 396 - Boynton Cab Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations (1980)
93 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 Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District v. Committee on Water Pollution · In re Incorporation of Village of North Milwaukee · State ex rel. Wisconsin Lutheran High School Conference v. Sinar · Pedrick v. First National Bank of Ripon · Milwaukee Boston Store Co. v. American Federation of Hosiery Workers, Branch 16
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The review shall be conducted by the court without a jury and shall be confined to the record, except that in cases of alleged irregularities in procedure before the agency, testimony thereon may be taken in the court. The court may affirm the decision of the agency, or may reverse or modify it if the substantial rights of the appellant have been prejudiced as a result of the administrative findings, inferences, conclusions or decisions being: “(a) Contrary to constitutional rights or privileges; or “(b) In excess of the statutory authority or jurisdiction of the agency, or affected by other error of law; or “(c) Made or promulgated upon unlawful procedure; or “(d) Unsupported by substantial evidence in view of the entire record as submitted; or “ (e) Arbitrary or capricious.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a legislatively dropped stitch in the statute”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"`"In legal usage, a decision is capricious if it is so unreasonable as to `shock the sense of justice and indicate lack of fair and careful consideration.' "`"Typical of the cases in which the epithet capricious may properly be applied are those where an agency has given different treatment to two respondents in identical circumstances, or has exhibited an irrational unfairness which suggests malice or discrimination." 2 Cooper, State Administrative Law (1965), p. 761.'"”
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.