40 Wis. 2d 709 - Krantz v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2006
2 district · 16 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 35 Wis. 2d 350 - Cogger v. Trudell · Andrzejewski v. Northwestern Fuel Co. · 14 Wis. 2d 666 - Krause v. Home Mutual Insurance
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plaintiff in wrongful death action. “(1) An action for wrongful death may be brought by the personal representative of the deceased person or by the person to whom the amount recovered belongs. “(2) If the deceased leaves surviving a spouse, and minor children under 18 years of age with whose support the deceased was legally charged, the court before whom the action is pending, or if no action is pending, any court of record, in recognition of the duty and responsibility of a .parent to support minor children, shall determine the amount, if any, to be set aside for the protection of such children after considering the age of such children, the amount involved, the capacity and integrity of the surviving spouse, and any other facts or information it may have or receive, and such amount may be impressed by creation of an appropriate lien in favor of such children or otherwise protected as circumstances may warrant, but such amount shall not be in excess of 50% of the net amount received after deduction of costs of collection. If there are no such surviving minor children, the amount recovered shall belong and be paid to the spouse of the deceased; if no spouse survives, to the deceased’s lineal heirs as determined by s. 852.01; if no lineal heirs survive, to the deceased’s brothers and sisters. If any such relative dies before judgment in the action, the relative next in order shall be entitled to recover for the wrongful death. “(4) Judgment for damages for pecuniary injury f”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . to the deceased's lineal heirs as determined by s. 852.01 . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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