84 Wis. 2d 68 - State v. Tronca’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably 96 Wis. 2d 48 - State v. Rabe (1980), 105 Wis. 2d 231 - State v. Clausen (1982)
67 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. Bramblett · United States v. Birdsall · 41 Wis. 2d 497 - State v. Zwicker · 74 Wis. 2d 705 - State v. Courtney
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has the effect of preventing the limiting, by indirection, of constitutional rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any public officer ... who does any of the following is guilty of a Class I felony: (3) Whether by act of commission or omission, in the officer's ... capacity as such officer... exercises a discretionary power in a manner inconsistent with the duties of the officer's ... office ... or the rights of others and with intent to obtain a dishonest advantage for the officer ... or another ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he statute provides, as separate elements of the crime, the requirement that the conduct be 'inconsistent with the duties of [one's] office' and the requirement that the conduct be done 'with intent to obtain a dishonest advantage.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jensen · State v. Schultz
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.