155 Wis. 2d 1 - Ehlinger v. Sipes’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Kramer v. Lewisville Memorial Hospital (1993), 168 Wis. 2d 834 - Fischer Ex Rel. Fischer v. Ganju (1992)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Hamil v. Bashline · Cooper v. Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Inc. · Jones v. Montefiore Hospital · Hicks v. United States · 99 Wash. 2d 609 - Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant's conduct has such an effect in producing the harm as to lead the trier of fact, as a reasonable person, to regard it as a cause, using that word in the popular sense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“more probable than not [that] the treatment could have lessened or avoided the plaintiffs injuries.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a case such as presented here, where given the natures of the malady and omitted treatment the success of the treatment if instituted is not a matter of reasonable certainty, we refuse to place upon an injured plaintiff the burden of proving what more probably than not would have happened had the defendant not been negligent.”
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.