45 Wis. 2d 44 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2008
21 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 Wenzler v. Pitchess · 31 Wis. 2d 110 - Lock v. State · State Ex Rel. La Follette v. Moser
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Engaged in . . . performance of official duties’ is simply acting within the scope of what the agent is employed to do. The test is whether the agent is acting within that compass or is engaging in a personal frolic of his own. It cannot be said that an agent who has made an arrest loses his official capacity if the arrest is subsequently adjudged to be unlawful.” 373 F.2d at 245 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“what any officer of the law is supposed to do . . . attempting] to preserve public peace and order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“became aware of the situation and took action”
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.