4 Wis. 2d 592 - Lewis v. Leiterman’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The jury found that Leiterman came into the arterial, into Wallen-fang’s path, without proper lookout and without stopping. Nevertheless, it determined that Wallen-fang [who was driving on the arterial highway] was causally negligent in speed and in management and control. The learned trial court, on motions after verdict, said that those findings had ample support in the evidence. Our study of the record brings us to the same conclusion. A finding, which could be made a matter of law, that Leiterman failed to yield the right of way and it was causal negligence could, at most, only add another element to Leiter-man’s negligence. It might well affect the comparison of negligence between the two drivers. It could not possibly eliminate all causal negligence on Wallenfang’s part, nor could it possibly impose any contributory negligence on the plaintiffs.” 91 N.W.2d at page 93.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McDonnell v. Timmerman