162 Wis. 2d 261 - Johnson v. Allis Chalmers Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 162 Wis. 2d 296 - Schneller v. St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center (1991), 228 Wis. 2d 707 - Garfoot v. Fireman's Fund Insurance (1999)
139 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · 162 Wis. 2d 296 - Schneller v. St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center · Curtis T. Bedwell and Sons, Inc. v. International Fidelity Insurance Company v. Markim, Inc., Hennelly, John J., Hennelly, Margaret, John J. Hennelly, Inc., and Zimmerman, Fred, Trustee for John J. Hennelly, Inc. v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, Fidelity and Guaranty Insurance Underwriters, Inc., and Reinsurance Corporation of New York and Travelers Indemnity Co. And Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. And Employers Reinsurance Corporation and American Reinsurance Company and Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Comdyne I, Inc. v. Corbin · Dunbar v. Triangle Lumber & Supply 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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One, as a practical matter, a layperson ordinarily cannot be expected to supervise his or her attorney through every pretrial phase of litigation. ... Two, the consequence for the blameless litigant whose case is dismissed is extraordinarily severe. The litigant never gets the opportunity for a trial on the merits.... Three, the harm to the opposing party is ordinarily limited, and the opposing party can be compensated. Four, the circuit court has other sanctions available to it short of dismissal of the litigant's case with prejudice, the most severe sanction possible. Sanctions could be imposed on the lawyer personally. Five, while a circuit court's efforts to move the docket expeditiously are important, dismissing actions for counsel's failure to comply with court orders does not necessarily foster sound, speedy administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“litigant has no right to avoid the consequences of his attorney's conduct by disavowing the actions of counsel.”
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.