Leitinger v. DBart, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
8 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 229 Ill. 2d 393 - Wills v. Foster (2008), State v. Popenhagen (2008)
8 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 39 Wis. 2d 754 - State v. Hutnik · Hanif v. Housing Authority · 135 Wis. 2d 105 - Lambert v. Wrensch · 56 Wis. 2d 231 - Thoreson v. Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. · 99 Wis. 2d 269 - Barrera v. State
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although claiming that the evidence assists the fact-finder in determining the reasonable value of the medical treatment and does not limit or reduce the damages, [the defendant], in essence, is seeking to do indirectly what it cannot do directly, that is, it is seeking to limit [the plaintiff s] award for expenses for medical treatment by introducing evidence that payment was made by a collateral source. [Defendant] ignores the fact that the collateral source rule protects against the ‘ever-present danger that the juiy will misuse the evidence [of collateral payments] to diminish the damage award. [Defendant] is trying to circumvent the collateral source rule. “The collateral source rule prevents the fact-finder from learning about collateral source payments, even when offered supposedly to assist the jury in determining the reasonable value of the medical treatment rendered, so that the existence of collateral source payments will not influence the fact-finder.” (Emphasis added.) 302 Wis. 2d at 137 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he tortfeasor who is legally responsible for causing injury is not relieved of his obligation to the victim simply because the victim had the foresight to arrange, or good fortune to receive, benefits from a collateral source for injuries and expenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he collateral source rule protects plaintiffs by guarding against the potential misuse of collateral source evidence to deny the plaintiff full recovery to which he is entitled.”
2 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.