36 Wis. 2d 312 - State v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Bruno v. Milwaukee County (2003), 41 Wis. 2d 261 - National Amusement Co. v. Department of Revenue (1969)
54 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Weems v. United States · Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · United States v. Rosenberg
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing or interpreting a statute the court is not at liberty to disregard the plain, clear words of the statute.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“excessive and unusual, and so disproportionate to the offense committed, as to shock public sentiment and violate the judgment of reasonable people concerning what is right and proper under the circumstances?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Husband and wife. A husband or wife shall be a competent witness for or against the other in all cases, except that neither one without the consent of the other, during marriage, nor afterwards, shall be permitted to disclose a private communication, made during marriage, by one to the other, when such private communication is privileged. Such private communication shall be privileged in all except the following cases: “(1) Where both husband and wife were parties to the action; “(2) Where such private communication relates to a charge of personal violence by one upon the other; “(3) Where one has acted as the agent of the other and. such private communication relates to matters within the scope of such agency; “(4) Where such private communication relates to a charge of pandering or prostitution; “(5) Where such private communication relates to the abuse of a child by the husband or wife or both.””
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.