143 Wis. 2d 701 - C.L. v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Estate of Phillips v. City of Milwaukee (1997), Lodl v. Progressive Northern Insurance (2002)
14 federal appellate · 102 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 136 Wis. 2d 304 - Green Spring Farms v. Kersten · Doe v. McMillan · Westfall v. Erwin · 72 Wis. 2d 282 - Lister v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · Reynolds v. State
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absolute, certain and imperative, involving merely the performance of a specific task when the law imposes, prescribes and defines the time, mode and occasion for its performance with such certainty that nothing remains for judgment or discretion.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage“the nature of the danger is compelling and known to the officer and is of such force that the public officer has no discretion not to act.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[EJxception to the general rule of public officer immunity exists where the public officer’s or employee’s duty is absolute, certain and imperative, involving merely the performance of a specific task and (1) the law imposes, prescribes and defines the time, mode and occasion for its performance with such certainty that nothing remains for judgment or discretion, see, e.g., Lister, 72 Wis.2d at 300-01 , 240 N.W.2d at 622 ; or (2) there exists a known present danger of such force that the time, mode and occasion for performance is evident with such certainty that nothing remains for the exercise of judgment and discretion, see, e.g., Cords [v. Anderson], 80 Wis.2d 525 , 541, 259 N.W.2d 672 , 679-80 (Wis.1977).”
8 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.