138 Wis. 2d 115 - Berg v. Fall’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 219 Wis. 2d 277 - Doyle v. Engelke (1998), ESTATE OF SUSTACHE v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company (2008)
33 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 109 Wis. 2d 461 - Hedtcke v. Sentry Insurance · 33 Wis. 2d 552 - Grieb v. Citizens Casualty Co. · 84 Wis. 2d 91 - Cieslewicz Ex Rel. Finerty v. Mutual Service Casualty Insurance · 98 Wis. 2d 66 - Patrick v. Head of the Lakes Cooperative Electric Ass'n · 71 Wis. 2d 160 - Olguin v. Allstate Insurance
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The insurer cannot safely assume that the limits of its duties to defend are fixed by the allegations a third party chooses to put into his complaint, since an insurer's duty is measured by the facts, particularly where the pleadings allege facts that are within an exception to a policy but the true facts are within, or potentially within, policy coverage and are known or are reasonably ascertainable by the insurer. 7C Appleman, Insurance Law and Practice, sec. 4683 at 56 (1979).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause the record shows facts sufficient to support an inference that Fall acted reasonably in self-defense, summary judgment was inappropriate and State Farm owes him a duty of defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that a privileged act of self-defense is not excluded from coverage by State Farm's policy language.”
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.