124 Wis. 2d 426 - Brown v. Maxey’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 206 Wis. 2d 158 - Management Computer Services, Inc. v. Hawkins, Ash, Baptie & Co. (1996), Strenke v. Hogner (2005)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 99 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 97 Wis. 2d 260 - Wangen v. Ford Motor Co. · 119 Wis. 2d 722 - Kremers-Urban Co. v. American Employers Insurance Co. · Northwestern National Casualty Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin v. Edward A. McNulty and Walter Scott Smith · Lazenby Ex Rel. Lazenby v. Universal Underwriters Insurance · Kink v. Combs
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“willful or wanton, in a reckless disregard of rights or interests.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The first type is that in which the defendant desires to cause the harm sustained by the plaintiff, or believes that the harm is substantially certain to follow his conduct. With the second type of conduct the defendant knows, or should have reason to know, not only that his conduct creates an unreasonable risk of harm, but also that there is a strong probability, although not a substantial certainty, that the harm will result but, nevertheless, he proceeds with his conduct in reckless or conscious disregard of the consequences."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay.”
3 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.