39 Wis. 2d 447 - Urhammer v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 58 Wis. 2d 193 - Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Fairbanks Morse, Inc. (1973), 47 Wis. 2d 442 - Haines v. Mid-Century Insurance (1970)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Heath v. Zellmer · Tomlyanovich v. Tomlyanovich · Conklin v. Horner · 38 Wis. 2d 98 - Zelinger v. State Sand & Gravel Co. · Peterson v. Warren
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We now adopt the grouping-of-contacts approach for the resolution of conflicts questions pertaining to the validity and rights created by the provisions of a disputed contract. “Under the grouping-of-eontacts theory it is clear that the significant contacts, both quantitatively and qualitatively, are with Minnesota. Here the negotiations over the contract were undertaken in Minnesota; the domicile of the parties is Minnesota; the policy was entered into, issued and delivered in Minnesota; premiums were paid and claims filed in Minnesota and the vehicle involved was licensed and garaged in Minnesota. There are no significant contacts with Wisconsin. While the appellants correctly state that the place of the accident and the residence of one defendant and his insurance carrier are in Wisconsin, these factors, though relevant to the tort aspects of this case, have nothing to do with the contract question. Certainly one would not argue that the policy limits in this contract would change when state lines are crossed. Likewise, the other contractual relations, bargained and agreed to by the Minnesota contracting parties, should not change.” 39 Wis.2d at 450-451 , 159 N.W.2d at 689-690 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In several recent cases decided by this court involving conflicts of law in the contract area, it was unnecessary to make a choice between the grouping-of-contacts approach to the determination of conflicts questions and the traditional rules dependent upon the place of making, performance, and presumed intention of the parties. In Knippel and Peterson we recognized there was much to be said for this new approach, although it was unnecessary to make the change in those cases. We now adopt the grouping-of-contacts approach for the resolution of conflicts questions pertaining to the validity and rights created by the provisions of a disputed contract. Urhammer at page 450, 159 N.W.2d 688 .”
2 later decisions 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.