Schultz v. Natwick’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Ferdon Ex Rel. Petrucelli v. Wisconsin Patients Compensation Fund (2005), Johnson Controls, Inc. v. Employers Insurance of Wausau (2003)
43 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 Arizona v. Rumsey · In re Judd · 122 Wis. 2d 172 - Welch v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 192 Wis. 2d 156 - Martin Ex Rel. Scoptur v. Richards · 181 Wis. 2d 410 - State v. Stevens
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fidelity to precedent ensures that existing law will not be abandoned lightly. When existing law is open to revision in every case, deciding cases becomes a mere exercise of judicial will, with arbitrary and unpredictable results.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“need to make a decision correspond to newly ascertained facts;”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“changes or developments in the law [that] have undermined the rationale behind a decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.