38 Wis. 2d 607 - McKinnon v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 94 Wis. 2d 421 - Crowley v. Knapp (1980), 90 Wis. 2d 781 - Pure Milk Products Cooperative v. National Farmers Organization (1979)
44 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 Maitland v. Twin City Aviation Corp. · Mowry v. Wood · Mulligan v. Albertz · Mueller v. Schier · Bouchard v. Zetley
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.
“Is [it] a reasonable one under all the facts and circumstances of the transaction in the light of 'the situation, business, and objects of the parties,' and [is] the restriction 'for a just and honest purpose, for the protection of the legitimate interests of the party in whose favor it is imposed . . .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in granting specific performance . . . '[a] court of equity must be satisfied that the claim for a deed is fair and just and reasonable, and the contract equal in all its parts and founded on an adequate consideration, before it will interpose with this extraordinary assistance.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]njunctive relief is not ordered as a matter of course, but instead rests on the sound discretion of the court, to be used in accordance with well-settled equitable principles and in light of all the facts and circumstances of the case.”
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.