211 Wis. 2d 628 - Atkinson v. Mentzel’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 221 Wis. 2d 630 - Juneau County v. Courthouse Employees (1998), 224 Wis. 2d 829 - Richards v. Land Star Group, Inc. (1999)
2 district · 49 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 100 Wis. 2d 342 - In Matter of Estate of Bilsie · 185 Wis. 2d 220 - Stern v. Thompson & Coates, Ltd. · 78 Wis. 2d 338 - Hunter v. McDonald · 83 Wis. 2d 58 - Edlin v. Soderstrom · 186 Wis. 2d 300 - Clark v. WAUPACA COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he use of the easement must be in accordance with and confined to the terms and purposes of the grant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“access for all uses of said property other than retail sales”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An easement creates two distinct property interests: the dominant estate and the servient estate.”
3 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.