148 Wis. 2d 630 - Spitler v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 926 - Bernson v. Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc. (1994), 160 Wis. 2d 144 - Hennekens v. Hoerl (1991)
6 federal appellate · 83 state decisions — followed in 13 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 113 Wis. 2d 550 - Hansen v. AH Robins, Inc. · 130 Wis. 2d 397 - Borello v. U.S. Oil Co. · Hilker v. Western Automobile Insurance · 57 Wis. 2d 1 - Peterson v. Roloff · Barry v. Minahan
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue of reasonable diligence is ordinarily one of fact.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“A cause of action accrues where there exists a claim capable of present enforcement, a suable party against whom it may be enforced, and a party who has a present right to enforce it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“injury, its nature, its cause, and the identity of the allegedly responsible defendant.”
2 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.