Kreft v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. ““As to those particulars, all that need be said is that if the evidence were conflicting or the inferences to be drawn from the evidence were doubtful and uncertain, and if there were any credible evidence under any reasonable view to support the contention of any or either party, the rule that the proper inference to be drawn therefrom is a question for the jury must prevail. It has been declared to be the proper rule that the court should not assume to answer such questions, then, either upon motion for nonsuit or direction of verdict, or by substituting another answer after the verdict is rendered. Trautmann v. Charles Schefft & Sons Co. 201 Wis. 113 , 228 N. W. 741 ; Dachelet v. Home Mut. Casualty Co. 258 Wis. 413 , 46 N. W. (2d) 331 ; Anderson v. Stricker, 266 Wis. 1 , 62 N. W. (2d) 396 .” Kreft v. Charles (1954), 268 Wis. 44, 48 , 66 N. W. 2d 618 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Wis. 2d 378 - Leatherman v. Garza