132 Wis. 2d 440 - Mullen v. Coolong’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

cited by 35 later decisions

states following

June 2005

most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably 137 Wis. 2d 581 - Nicholson v. Home Insurance Companies, Inc. (1987), 138 Wis. 2d 192 - Midwest Mutual Insurance v. Nicolazzi (1987)

35 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 93 Wis. 2d 433 - Wirth v. Ehly · 21 Wis. 2d 182 - Pierringer v. Hoger · 113 Wis. 2d 561 - Brockmeyer v. Dun & Bradstreet · 122 Wis. 2d 158 - Tahtinen v. MSI Insurance · 118 Wis. 2d 526 - State v. Lossman

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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A contractual provision voluntarily made between competent parties is valid and enforceable unless it violates a statute, rule of law, or public policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 2002 WI App 43 - Milwaukee Police Ass'n v. City of Milwaukee · 156 Wis. 2d 227 - Century Shopping Center Fund I v. Crivello
“In sub. (3)(a) [later (4)(a)] the final sentence of s. 204.30(5)(a) is omitted [because i]t does not seem to add anything.” Committee Comment — 1975 to sec. 632.32, Wis. Stats. Ann. (1980). The 1979 Committee Comment states that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 137 Wis. 2d 581 - Nicholson v. Home Insurance Companies, Inc.
“Using legislative council comments to override legislation is improper because those notes are but another form of legislative history 'to be resorted to in cases of ambiguity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 224 Wis. 2d 764 - State v. Inglin

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.