174 Wis. 2d 10 - Fiumefreddo v. McLean’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 193 Wis. 2d 6 - Peplinski v. Fobe's Roofing, Inc. (1995), 200 Wis. 2d 665 - Richards v. Mendivil (1996)
2 federal appellate · 60 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 Vandygriff v. Phillips · 25 Cal. 2d 486 - Ybarra v. Spangard · 116 Wis. 2d 166 - Collins v. Eli Lilly & Co. · 102 Wis. 2d 539 - Eberhardy v. Circuit Court for Wood County · 18 Wis. 2d 529 - State Ex Rel. Jackson v. Coffey
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(a) either a layman is able to determine as a matter of common knowledge or an expert testifies that the result which occurred does not ordinarily occur in the absence of negligence, (b) the agent or instrumentality causing the harm was within the exclusive control of the defendant, and (c) the evidence offered is sufficient to remove the causation question from the realm of conjecture, but not so substantial that it provides a full and complete explanation of the event."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“when an appellate record is incomplete in connection with an issue raised by the appellant, we must assume that the missing material supports the trial court's ruling.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e are bound by the record as it comes to us.”
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.