103 Wis. 2d 1 - Gutter v. Seamandel’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Felder v. Casey (1988), 116 Wis. 2d 388 - Hathaway v. Joint School District No. 1 (1984)
77 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 97 Wis. 2d 260 - Wangen v. Ford Motor Co. · 99 Wis. 2d 602 - Mannino v. Davenport · 97 Wis. 2d 435 - Hunter v. School District of Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau · 54 Wis. 2d 286 - Schwartz v. City of Milwaukee · 32 Wis. 2d 350 - Pattermann v. City of Whitewater
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he general rule of statutory construction is that statutes are to be construed as relating to future and not to past acts. There is an exception to this rule: if a statute is procedural or remedial, rather than substantive, the statute is generally given retroactive application.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be brought after 6 months from the date of service of the notice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in furtherance of the remedy, by curing defects and adding to the means of enforcing existing obligations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.