Caygill v. Ipsen’s Empirical Analysis

1965

Citation profile

cited by 75 later decisions

states following

May 2019

most recently cited

73 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 109 Wis. 2d 536 - Tamminen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1982), 96 Wis. 2d 314 - Wisconsin Natural Gas Co. v. Ford, Bacon & Davis Construction Corp. (1980)

73 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 Maddux v. Donaldson · Maslow Cooperage Corp. v. Weeks Pickle Co. · Bolick v. Gallagher · Kiviniemi v. American Mutual Liability Insurance · State v. P. Lorillard Co.

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

““263.04. Uniting causes of action. The plaintiff may unite in the same complaint several causes of action, whether they be such as were formerly denominated legal or equitable or both. But the causes of action so united must affect all the parties to the action and not require different places of trial, and must be stated separately.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 137 Wis. 2d 1 - Robinson Ex Rel. Robinson v. Mount Sinai Medical Center · 57 Wis. 2d 417 - Theune v. City of Sheboygan
“[A] cause of action must be viewed as a grouping of facts falling into a single unit or occurrence as a lay person would view them. This grouping of facts consists of 'the defendant's wrongful act.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 80 Wis. 2d 376 - Voight v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · 133 Wis. 2d 364 - Valley Forge Insurance v. Home Mutual Insurance
“`a factual unit, whose limits are determined by the time and sequence and unity of the happenings. . . .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 109 Wis. 2d 536 - Tamminen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · 57 Wis. 2d 417 - Theune v. City of Sheboygan

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.