85 Wis. 2d 663 - Steeno v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 141 Wis. 2d 187 - State v. Teynor (1987), 141 Wis. 2d 412 - State v. Larsen (1987)
32 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 Trop v. Dulles · Weems v. United States · Powell v. Texas · State of Louisiana Francis v. Resweber · John McDonald v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“excessive and unusual, and so disproportionate to the offense committed, as to shock public sentiment and violate the judgment of reasonable people concerning what is right and proper under the circumstances?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is essentially in the nature of a repeater statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he car of today, with engineering emphasis placed upon the power and speed of an automobile’s engine, is a crippling, if not lethal, weapon in the hands of an irresponsible driver.” Id. at 671 , 271 N.W.2d at 400 . The court further noted that”
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.