169 Wis. 2d 310 - Elliott v. Donahue’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 176 Wis. 2d 824 - Newhouse Ex Rel. Skow v. Citizens Security Mutual Insurance (1993), 173 Wis. 2d 30 - Grube v. Daun (1992)
12 federal appellate · 143 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 85 Wis. 2d 675 - Anderson v. Continental Insurance · Upland Mutual Insurance, Inc. v. Noel · 33 Wis. 2d 552 - Grieb v. Citizens Casualty Co. · 90 Wis. 2d 641 - Sola Basic Industries, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · 129 Wis. 2d 496 - Mowry v. Badger State Mutual 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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is any doubt about the duty to defend, it must be resolved in favor of the insured.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“request a bifurcated trial on the issues of coverage and liability and move to stay any proceedings on liability until the issue of coverage is resolved.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“The insurer that denies coverage and forces the insured to retain counsel and expend additional money to establish coverage for a claim that falls within the ambit of the insurance policy deprives the insured [of] the benefit that was bargained for and paid for with the periodic premium payments. Therefore, the principles of equity call for the insurer to be liable to the insured for expenses, including reasonable attorney fees, incurred by the insured in successfully establishing coverage.”
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.