Urban v. Grasser’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2024
18 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 159 Wis. 2d 464 - Ervin v. City of Kenosha · 111 Wis. 2d 116 - LePoidevin Ex Rel. Dye v. Wilson · 184 Wis. 2d 705 - Linville v. City of Janesville · 78 Wis. 2d 338 - Hunter v. McDonald · 211 Wis. 2d 628 - Atkinson v. Mentzel
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Circuit courts, the court of appeals, and this court have wrestled with recreational immunity since the legislature first provided for such immunity under the law. We have all been frustrated by the seeming lack of basic underlying principles in our efforts to state a test that can be easily applied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“and that attending a class reunion is not a recreational activity because it is not inherently an outdoor activity and is not undertaken for the purpose of exercise, relaxation or pleasure. Post 469, on the other hand, argues the circumstances of this case fall within the definition of a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Recreational activity" means any outdoor activity undertaken for the purpose of exercise, relaxation or pleasure, including practice or instruction in any such activity. "Recreational activity" includes hunting, fishing, trapping, camping, picnicking, exploring caves, nature study, bicycling, horseback riding, birdwatching, motorcycling, operating an all-terrain vehicle, ballooning, hang gliding, hiking, tobogganing, sledding, sleigh riding, snowmobiling, skiing, skating, water sports, sight-seeing, rock-climbing, cutting or removing wood, climbing observation towers, animal training, harvesting the products of nature, sport shooting and any other outdoor sport, game or educational activity. "Recreational activity" does not include any organized team sport activity sponsored by the owner of the property on which the activity takes place.”
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.