These tables are derived from information contained in 311 Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions that were turned up in a Nexis Uni search for decisions filed between September 1, 1914, and August 31, 1915. The total of 311 decisions does not include various orders pertaining to petitions, motions, and disciplinary matters involving lawyers and judges.
Cases are omitted if they were decided during the previous term but appeared in the search results because motions for reconsideration were not decided until 1914-5. Such cases will be included in the tables for 1913-14.
Berntzon v. Edwardsen is omitted because the justices stated in a one-sentence per curiam ruling that there was “such a conflict of views” among them that they could not agree on the grounds for affirming. So, they simply affirmed without further explanation.
When two or more cases were, in effect, consolidated—one was simply said to be ruled by the decision in the other—the cases are counted as only one. For instance: Flood v. Pabst Brewing Co. (158 Wis. 626) and Flood v. Pabst Brewing Co. (158 Wis. 635).
The tables are available as a complete set and by individual topic in the subsets listed below.
Four-to-Three Decisions
Decisions Arranged by Vote Split
Frequency of Justices in the Majority
Distribution of Opinion Authorship
Frequency of Agreement Between Pairs of Justices
