Wulf v. Rebbun’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2002 · most notably 74 Wis. 2d 526 - Coffey v. City of Milwaukee (1976), 58 Wis. 2d 608 - Weiss v. Holman (1973)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 55 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 Glanzer v. . Shepard · Pfeifer v. Standard Gateway Theater, Inc. · Colton v. Foulkes · Thelen v. Spilman · Sweet v. Ringwelski
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ancient learning that one who assumes to act, even though gratuitously, may thereby become subject to the duty of acting carefully, if he acts at all.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““While the complaint must be liberally construed it must still state a cause of action and must fairly inform the opposite party of what he is called upon to meet by alleging specific acts. A pleading may fairly inform an opposite party what he is called upon to meet and yet not state a cause of action. However, as stated in Kagel v. Brugger (1963), 19 Wis.2d 1 , 119 N.W.2d 394 , the question on this demurrer is whether the complaint which fairly informs the defendant of what he is charged states facts which give rise to a duty of the defendant owing to the plaintiff as a matter of law.” Id. at 502-03.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It may be true as stated by the trial court and argued by the respondent that the signal given by the American Motors’ driver cannot relieve Yenter of his duty to maintain a proper lookout and that his failure in this regard was the real cause of the accident.””
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.