127 Wis. 2d 177 - Betchkal v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 137 Wis. 2d 109 - Gonzalez Ex Rel. Bichler v. City of Franklin (1987), 161 Wis. 2d 530 - State v. Petrone (1991)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 100 Wis. 2d 256 - Walker v. Bignell · 70 Wis. 2d 743 - Lutz v. Shelby Mutual Insurance · 118 Wis. 2d 441 - Leahy Ex Rel. Heft v. Kenosha Memorial Hospital · 106 Wis. 2d 96 - State v. Paulson · Reynolds v. Madison Bus Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A safety statute is a legislative enactment designed to protect a specified class of persons from a particular type of harm.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The supreme court may grant the petition upon such conditions as it considers appropriate, including the filing of additional briefs. If the petition is granted, the petitioner cannot raise or argue issues not set forth in the petition unless ordered otherwise by the supreme court. The supreme court may limit the issues to be considered on review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the harm inflicted was the type the. statute was designed to prevent; (2) the person injured was within the class of persons sought to be protected; and (3) there is some expression of legislative intent that the statute become a basis for the imposition of civil liability.”
1 later decision 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.