74 Wis. 2d 550 - Buse v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 81 Wis. 2d 491 - State Ex Rel. Strykowski v. Wilkie (1978), 218 Wis. 2d 835 - Jackson v. Benson (1998)
70 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 San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · 26 Wis. 2d 43 - State Ex Rel. Sonneborn v. Sylvester · Gottlieb v. City of Milwaukee · 59 Wis. 2d 391 - State Ex Rel. Warren v. Nusbaum · 17 Wis. 2d 310 - Columbia County v. Board of Trustees of Wisconsin Retirement Fund
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“historical analysis of the constitutional debates and of what practices were in existence in 1848 which the court may reasonably presume were also known to the framers of the 1848 constitution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“District schools; tuition; sectarian instruction; released time. SECTION 3. [As amended April 1972] The legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of district schools, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable; and such schools shall be free and without charge for tuition to all children between the ages of 4 and 20 years; and no sectarian instruction shall be *Page 260 allowed therein; but the legislature by law may, for the purpose of religious instruction outside the district schools, authorize the release of students during regular school hours. [1969 J.R. 37, 1971 J.R. 28, vote April 1972]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the contemporaneous construction evidenced”
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.