151 Wis. 2d 663 - Olson v. Connerly’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bell v. City of Milwaukee · 118 Wis. 2d 526 - State v. Lossman · Hibma v. Odegaard · 122 Wis. 2d 223 - Garrett Ex Rel. Kravit v. City of New Berlin · 136 Wis. 2d 13 - Desotelle v. Continental Casualty 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is within the scope of his employment when he is perform ing work or rendering services he was engaged to perform and render within the time and space limits of his authority, and is actuated by a purpose to serve his employer in doing what he is doing. The test is whether the person has stepped aside from the business of his employer to accomplish an independent purpose of his own, or whether he was actuated by an intent to carry out his employment and to serve his employer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“victim's own description of physical manifestations a sufficient evidentiary basis to deny summary judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Mmh v. United States
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.