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← 343 WIS2D 83 - DeBruin v. St. Patrick Congregation

DeBruin v. St. Patrick Congregation’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
3
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

25 state decisions

Relationships

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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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We need not reach these various constitutional issues because we conclude the case can be resolved on statutory construction grounds alone. This court does not normally decide constitutional questions if the case can be resolved on other grounds”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[W]e do not normally reach constitutional issues in cases that are resolvable on other grounds . . . .”
    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.