121 Wis. 2d 421 - Evans v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
8 district · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 162 Wis. 2d 918 - Northridge Co. v. W.R. Grace & Co. (1991), 218 Wis. 2d 835 - Jackson v. Benson (1998)
8 district · 98 state decisions — followed in 11 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 85 Wis. 2d 675 - Anderson v. Continental Insurance · 87 Wis. 2d 723 - Morgan v. Pennsylvania General Insurance · 312 Pa. Super. 125 - Feld & Sons, Inc. v. Pechner, Dorfman, Wolfee, Rounick, & Cabot · Ford v. . Harrington · Berman v. Coakley
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is quite clear that under no conditions can the plaintiff recover.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“There may be circumstances in which the advice given by an "attorney is so complex that the client would be unaware of the wrongfulness involved in following that advice. In such eircum- stances, more Weight may be given to the. influence an attorney will have over theclient • and the amount of reliance which the .client can justifiably place in the attorney. The wrpngfulness of lying under oath, however, is apparent.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court should not encourage others to commit illegal acts upon their lawyer's advice by allowing the perpetrators to believe that a suit against the attorney will allow them to obtain relief from any damage they might suffer if caught.”
6 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.