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40 Wis. 2d 494 - Cartwright v. Sharpe’s Empirical Analysis

1968

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
4
states following
May 2020
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 62 Wis. 2d 295 - Slawek v. Stroh (1974), 70 Wis. 2d 242 - Harris v. Kelley (1975)

7 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

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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 30 Wis. 2d 1 - State Ex Rel. Harvey v. Morgan · 17 Wis. 2d 148 - State Ex Rel. Reynolds v. Nusbaum · Northern Trust Co. v. Snyder · Menzl v. City of Milwaukee · Application of Heintz

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

  1. “. . . where transportation is furnished, either mandatory or permissive, it must be on a reasonably uniform basis to children attending either public or private schools.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “. . . We do note the statutory guideline that `there shall be reasonable uniformity in the transportation furnished . . . pupils whether they attend public or private schools.' (Sec. 121.54 (1), Stats.) With this legislatively established lighthouse to mark the shores, the school district, the private school administrations, and the state superintendent should be able to steer without running aground on statutory or constitutional reefs.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[n]othing in this constitution shall prohibit the legislature from providing for the safety and welfare of children by providing for the transportation of children to and from any parochial or private school or institution of learning.”
    3 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.