37 Wis. 2d 285 - White v. Benkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 80 Wis. 2d 525 - Cords v. Anderson (1977), 96 Wis. 2d 314 - Wisconsin Natural Gas Co. v. Ford, Bacon & Davis Construction Corp. (1980)
28 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 Kink v. Combs · Bland v. Smith · 14 Wis. 2d 57 - Malco, Inc. v. Midwest Aluminum Sales, Inc. · Colton v. Foulkes · 19 Wis. 2d 54 - Presser v. Siesel Construction 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . given to make whole the damage or injury suffered by the injured party. White v. Benkowski, 37 Wis. 2d 285, 290 , 155 N.W.2d 74 (1967).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . given to make whole the damage or injury suffered by the injured party. White v. Benkowski, 37 Wis. 2d 285, 290 , 155 N.W.2d 74 (1967). ". . . The plaintiffs are not required to ascertain their damages with mathematical precision, but rather the trier of fact must set damages at a reasonable amount.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. the contract creates the relation out of which grows the duty to use care in the performance of a responsibility prescribed by the contract.”
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.