Bogust v. Iverson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Eisel v. Board of Education (1991), 87 Wis. 2d 310 - Wilson v. Continental Insurance Companies (1979)
27 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Laidlaw v. . Sage · Daniels v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Miller v. Welworth Theatres · Breeze v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad · Stevens v. Steadman
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““result-of an uncontrollable impulse, or is accomplished in delirium or frenzy caused by the * * * [defendant’s negligent act], and without conscious volition to produce death, having knowledge of the physical nature and consequences of the act. An act of suicide resulting from a moderately intelligent power of choice, even though the choice is determined by a disordered mind, should be deemed a new and independent, efficient cause of the death that immediately ensues.” Bogust v. Iverson, 10 Wis.2d 129 , 102 N.W.2d 228, 232 (1960)(quoting Daniels v. New York N.H. & H.R. R., 183 Mass. 393 , 67 N.E. 424 (1903)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘To hold that a teacher who has no training, education, or experience in medical fields is required to recognize in a student a condition the diagnosis of which is in a specialized and technical medical field, would require a duty beyond reason.’ ””
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.