Maxwell v. Stack’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1974
7 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 Williams v. Peninsular Grocery Co. · Matter of Pirie · Hoven v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. · Scofield v. Milwaukee Free Press Co. · Bergeron v. Peyton
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ch. 19 of the statutes was created by ch. 93, Laws of 1919, which was a revisor’s bill. In a note to sub. (2), which prescribes the form of an official bond, the revisor said: “ ‘This form is simple. ... It names no obligees, but the subscribers undertake to respond to any party damaged by a breach, whether that party shall be the state, a municipality, a board or commission, or a person.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where, however, it is sought to recover special damages such damages must be pleaded and there must be an allegation that the damages were caused by the facts which gave rise to the cause of action.” Maxwell v. Stack (1945), 246 Wis. 487, 497 , 17 N. W. 2d 603 .”
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.