Strenke v. Hogner’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Teschendorf v. State Farm Ins. Companies (2006), Phelps v. Physicians Ins. Co. of Wisconsin, Inc. (2005)
77 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 Farmer v. Brennan · BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Campbell · State Ex Rel. Kalal v. Circuit Court for Dane County · Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiff may receive punitive damages if evidence is submitted showing that the defendant acted maliciously toward the plaintiff or in an intentional disregard of the rights of the plaintiff.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] person acts in an intentional disregard of the rights of the plaintiff if the person acts with a purpose to disregard the plaintiff's rights, or is aware that his or her acts are substantially certain to result in the plaintiff's rights being disregarded. This will require that an act or course of conduct be deliberate. Additionally, the act or conduct must actually disregard the rights of the plaintiff, whether it be a right to safety, health or life, a property right, or some other right. Finally, the act or conduct must be sufficiently aggravated to warrant punishment by punitive damages.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Groshek v. TREWIN · J. K. v. Peters“a person acts in an intentional disregard of the rights of the plaintiff if the person acts with a purpose to disregard the plaintiffs rights, or is aware that his or her acts are substantially certain to result in the plaintiffs rights being disregarded.”
6 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.