Wurtzinger v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably 70 Wis. 2d 242 - Harris v. Kelley (1975), 318 So. 2d 386 - Lincenberg v. Issen (1975)
40 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 Yorton v. Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railway Co. · Frankfort General Insurance v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. · Ayala v. Farmers Mutual Automobile Insurance · Rice v. Garnhart · Stanley v. Bouck
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n action for wrongful death * * * belongs to the beneficiaries and is designed to compensate for the loss of the relational interest existing between the beneficiaries and the deceased * * *. [T]he action for wrongful death has for its purpose the compensation of the survivors for the loss of benefits caused by the death of the deceased, and does not belong to the estate of the deceased or become an asset thereof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“designed to compensate for the loss of the relational interest existing between the beneficiaries and the decedent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(1) Both parties must be joint negligent wrongdoers. “(2) They must have common liability because of such negligence. “(3) One such party must have borne an unequal portion of the common burden.” Wurtzinger v. Jacobs (1967), 33 Wis. 2d 703, 709 , 148 N. W. 2d 86 .”
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.