Kangas v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2021
12 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 113 Wis. 2d 61 - Sweet v. Berge · 90 Wis. 2d 408 - Bucyrus-Erie Co. v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations · 164 Wis. 2d 639 - Fortier v. Flambeau Plastics Co. · 185 Wis. 2d 220 - Stern v. Thompson & Coates, Ltd. · 187 Wis. 2d 218 - Kenefick v. Hitchcock
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Inherent risk of equine activities" means a danger or condition that is an integral part of equine activities, including all of the following: 1. The propensity of an equine to behave in a way that may result in injury or death to a person on or near it. 2. The unpredictability of an equine's reaction to a sound, movement or unfamiliar object, person or animal. 3. A collision with an object or another animal. 4. The potential for a person participating in an equine activity to act in a negligent manner, to fail to control the equine or to not act within his or her ability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he horses' propensity to move without warning is an inherent risk of equine activity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Civil liability exemption; equine activities. (1) In this section: (b) "Equine activity" means any of the following: 1. Shows, fairs, competitions, performances or parades that involve any breeds of equines and any equine disciplines, including combined training, competitive trail riding, cutting, dressage, driving, endurance trail riding, English or western performance riding, grand prix jumping, horse racing, hunter and jumper shows, hunting, polo, pulling, rodeos, 3-day events and western games. 2. Equine training or teaching. 3. Boarding of equines. 4. Riding, inspecting or evaluating an equine belonging to another, regardless of whether the owner of the equine receives monetary or other consideration for the use of the equine or permits the riding, inspection or evaluation of the equine. 5. Riding, training or driving an equine or being a passenger on an equine. 6. Riding, training or driving a vehicle pulled by an equine or being a passenger on a vehicle pulled by an equine. 7. Assisting in the medical treatment of an equine. 8. Shoeing of an equine. 9. Assisting a person participating in an activity listed in subds. 1. to 8. (g) "Spectator" means a person who attends or watches an equine activity but does not participate in the equine activity or perform any act or omission related to the equine activity that contributes to the injury or death of a participant in the equine activity. (2) Except as provided in subs. (3) and (6), a person, including an equine activity sp”
1 later decision 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.