21 Wis. 2d 390 - Donlea v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . We see, however, no reason why a court should not take judicial notice of figures based on expectancies computed on the basis of current statistics and published by responsible government agencies and include such expectancies in instructions to the jury in a personal-injury action.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 48 Wis. 2d 665 - Tills v. Elmbrook Memorial Hospital, Inc.