86 Wis. 2d 336 - Coleman v. Percy’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 95 Wis. 2d 115 - State Ex Rel. Meeks v. Gagnon (1980), 96 Wis. 2d 578 - Coleman v. Percy (1980)
26 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 65 Wis. 2d 207 - State v. Goulette · LOCAL 248 UAW v. Natzke · 82 Wis. 2d 51 - State Ex Rel. Hauser v. Carballo · State Ex Rel. Hron Bros. v. City of Port Washington · 14 Wis. 2d 31 - Consolidated Apparel Co. v. Common Council of Milwaukee
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.
“[t]he return to a writ of certiorari is merely a certification of the record of the proceedings to be reviewed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] contract will not be construed to take away a common law remedy unless that result is imperatively required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]amages may not be awarded on certiorari,”
2 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.