40 Wis. 2d 627 - Zimmer v. Daun’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 86 Wis. 2d 572 - Wright v. Hasley (1979), 42 Wis. 2d 334 - Hardscrabble Ski Area, Inc. v. First National Bank of Rice Lake (1969)
65 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 Stammer v. Kitzmiller · Travelers Insurance Co. v. Employers Casualty Co. · 40 Wis. 2d 447 - Schuster v. Germantown Mutual Insurance · 229 Cal. App. 2d 229 - San Fernando Valley Crane Service, Inc. v. Travelers Insurance · 20 Wis. 2d 576 - Peterson v. Sinclair Refining 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think sec. 270.635, Stats., providing for summary judgment, does not confer a right to summary judgment but rather confers on the trial court a discretionary power to grant summary judgment when it believes summary disposition of a case is called for. The language of this section provides that ‘Summary judgment may be entered’ as provided in the section and that ‘The judgment may be entered in favor of either party.’ In sub. (3) it is provided that a summary judgment ‘may be awarded’ to the plaintiff although he has not moved therefor if upon motion by a defendant it shall appear to the court that the plaintiff is entitled to such judgment. There is no requirement, however, that the court must do so.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘. . . not convinced the affidavits set forth all the relevant facts which should be considered.’ ””
3 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.