66 Wis. 2d 602 - State v. Sidney’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2004 · most notably 98 Wis. 2d 66 - Patrick v. Head of the Lakes Cooperative Electric Ass'n (1980), 87 Ill. 2d 98 - People v. Johnson (1981)
24 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 62 Wis. 2d 179 - Herro, McAndrews & Porter, S. C. v. Gerhardt · 14 Wis. 2d 479 - Touchett v. E Z Paintr Corp. · Conway v. Sauk County · 24 Wis. 2d 172 - State v. Kenney · 29 Wis. 2d 132 - State v. DeKeyser
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[We have] previously approved as a general policy that all legal work performed for indigent criminal defendants should be at a figure per hour that is generally one-third below the prevailing rate charged for services to nonindigent clients. This is based on the fact of certainty of payment from the public treasury plus the further fact that legal work of this nature is part of the general obligation on the part of all lawyers to see that justice is done in our criminal courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hulse v. Wifvat“the amount and character of the services rendered, the labor, the time, and trouble involved, the charac ter and importance of the litigation, the amount of money or value of the property affected, the professional skill and experience called for, and the standing of the attorney in his profession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Reasonable men may differ over the value of legal services and there is no question of an attorney’s integrity involved when a court differs with him as to the necessity or value of services rendered.”
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.