Gritzner v. Michael R.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hoida, Inc. v. M & I MIDSTATE BANK (2006), Rabideau v. City of Racine (2001)
2 federal appellate · 85 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · 74 Wis. 2d 526 - Coffey v. City of Milwaukee · 183 Wis. 2d 627 - Bowen v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. · 226 Wis. 2d 235 - Wausau Tile, Inc. v. County Concrete Corp. · 144 Wis. 2d 223 - Schuster v. Altenberg
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the existence of a duty of care on the part of the defendant, (2) a breach of that duty of care, (3) a causal connection between the defendant's breach of the duty of care and the plaintiffs injury, and (4) actual loss or damage resulting from the injury.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Ordinary care is the care which a reasonable person would use in similar circumstances.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“even when a duty of care exists and the other elements of negligence have been established, public policy considerations may preclude liability.”
5 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.