89 Wis. 2d 49 - Hilber v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 135 Wis. 2d 58 - Treiber v. Knoll (1987), 141 Wis. 2d 710 - State Ex Rel. Jones v. Gerhardstein (1987)
25 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 McGinnis v. Royster · Morey v. Doud · Marshall v. United States · 89 Wis. 2d 58 - State v. Hart · United States of America Ex Rel. Joe McGill v. Theodore Schubin, Warden, Ossining Correctional Facility
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Differences in the treatment of criminal offenders have been viewed as being subject to the rational basis test”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In imposing such a severe sanction [of mandatory life sentence] the legislature has expressed its view that such conduct stands apart from other criminal conduct in its import and effect upon society. In excluding crime subject to a mandatory penalty of life imprisonment from the scope of the Youthful Offenders Act, the legislature has once again expressed society’s view of the enormity of such conduct. ... It would be reasonable for the legislature to believe that to include a youth found guilty of a crime subject to a mandatory penalty of life imprisonment within the scope of the Act would be to depreciate the seriousness of the crime and would not serve the interest of society in deterring crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“criterion, the standard this court uses in reviewing the constitutionality of a statutory classification is the”
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.