116 Wis. 2d 683 - Mech v. Borowski’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably 164 Wis. 2d 639 - Fortier v. Flambeau Plastics Co. (1991), 167 Wis. 2d 524 - American Family Mutual Insurance v. Royal Insurance Co. of America (1992)
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 71 Wis. 2d 424 - Danielson v. Brody Seating Co. · 92 Wis. 2d 276 - 519 CORP. v. Department of Transportation
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.
“Wisconsin requires strict compliance with its rules of statutory service, even though the consequences may appear to be harsh.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] civil action in which a personal judgment is sought is commenced as to any defendant when a summons and a complaint naming the person as defendant are filed with the court.”
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.