Pavalon v. Fishman’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 124 Wis. 2d 175 - Lundin v. Shimanski (1985), 48 Wis. 2d 54 - Zerbel v. H. L. Federman & Co. (1970)
3 federal appellate · 10 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 Meyers v. Matthews
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he general rule, in Wisconsin as well as elsewhere, is that brokers, whether employed for a single transaction or a series of transactions, are agents.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]ny person's acts for which acts the defendant is legally responsible”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A court of this state having jurisdiction of the subject matter has jurisdiction over a person served in an action pursuant to s. 262.06 under any of the following circumstances: * * * * * -x- “(4) Local injury; foreign act. In any action claiming injury to person or property within this state arising out of an act or omission outside this state by the defendant, provided in addition that at the time of the injury either: “(a) Solicitation or service activities were carried on within this state by or on behalf of the defendant; or “(b) Products, materials or things processed, serviced or manufactured by the defendant were used or consumed within this state in the ordinary course of trade.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maney v. Ratcliff
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.