184 Wis. 2d 142 - Lukowski v. Dankert’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably In RE MARRIAGE OF FRANKE v. Franke (2004), Sands v. Menard, Inc. (2010)
32 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 78 Wis. 2d 94 - Joint School District No. 10 v. Jefferson Education Ass'n · 83 Wis. 2d 90 - Glendale Professional Policemen's Ass'n v. City of Glendale · 144 Wis. 2d 576 - City of Madison v. Madison Professional Police Officers Ass'n · 78 Wis. 2d 1 - Milwaukee Professional Firefighters, Local 215 v. City of Milwaukee · 64 Wis. 2d 720 - Scherrer Construction Co. v. Burlington Memorial Hospital
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In either of the following cases the court in and for the county wherein the award was made must make an order vacating the award upon the application of any party to the arbitration: (a) Where the award was procured by corruption, fraud or undue means; (b) Where there was evident partiality or corruption on the part of the arbitrators, or either of them; (c) Where the arbitrators were guilty of misconduct in refusing to postpone the hearing, upon sufficient cause shown, or in refusing to hear evidence pertinent and material to the controversy; or of any other misbehavior by which the rights of any party have been prejudiced; (d) Where the arbitrators exceeded their powers, or so imperfectly executed them that a mutual, final and definite award upon the subject matter submitted was not made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An arbitrator obtains authority only from the contract of the parties and therefore is confined to the interpretation of that contract and cannot ignore that contract when making an award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he parties had a legitimate expectation that the governing law would be followed and applied properly.”
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.