209 Wis. 2d 72 - Walker v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2019
15 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 195 Wis. 2d 485 - M & I First National Bank v. Episcopal Homes Management, Inc. · 185 Wis. 2d 827 - NBZ, INC. v. Pilarski · Crosby v. Mills · Zinc Carbonate Co. v. First National Bank of Shullsburg · Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Gore
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a judgment which ought not, in equity and good conscience, to be enforced; (2) a good defense to the alleged cause of action on which the judgment is founded; (3) fraud, accident, or mistake which prevented the [appellant] in the judgment from obtaining the benefit of his [claim]; (4) the absence of fault or negligence on the part of [appellant]; and (5) the absence of any remedy at law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not limit the power of a court to entertain an independent action to relieve a party from judgment, order, or proceeding, or to set aside a judgment for fraud on the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“clearly furnishes a party with two additional avenues for relief from a judgment or order”
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.