Ellsworth v. Schelbrock’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 229 Ill. 2d 393 - Wills v. Foster (2008), Koffman v. Leichtfuss (2001)
44 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 77 Wis. 2d 537 - Garrity v. Rural Mutual Insurance · Powers v. Allstate Insurance · Hanif v. Housing Authority · 135 Wis. 2d 105 - Lambert v. Wrensch · 56 Wis. 2d 231 - Thoreson v. Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he tortfeasor who is legally responsible for causing injury is not relieved of his obligation to the victim simply because the victim had the foresight to arrange, or good fortune to receive, benefits from a collateral source for injuries and expenses.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“should a windfall arise as a consequence of an outside payment, the party to profit from that collateral source is 'the person who has been injured, not the one whose wrongful acts caused the injury.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the measure of damages is not what the highest payor would have paid for the same medical services but what was actually incurred in the care and treatment of the plaintiff's injuries. . . .By this measure, the defendant is not relieved of responsibility for his tortious conduct, and the plaintiff is made whole.”
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.