73 Wis. 2d 1 - State v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably 184 Wis. 2d 492 - In Interest of Angel Lace M. (1994), 86 Wis. 2d 1 - Hartridge v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (1978)
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 58 Wis. 2d 608 - Weiss v. Holman · 56 Wis. 2d 808 - State v. Gould · 54 Wis. 2d 666 - Anderson v. Anderson · 31 Wis. 2d 570 - Bendorf v. City of Darlington · 54 Wis. 2d 549 - City of Milwaukee v. Shoup Voting MacHine Corp.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Pleadings are to be liberally construed with a view to substantial justice between the parties and are entitled to all reasonable inferences in favor of the pleadings which may be drawn from the facts pleaded; (2) all material well-pleaded facts are to be taken as true; .... [Footnotes omitted.] Cited with approval in State v. Ross, 73 Wis.2d 1, 3-4 , 242 N.W.2d 210, 211 (1976).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] statute should not be construed so as to render any portion or word surplusage.”
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.