43 Wis. 2d 587 - Westerman v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Inter-Insurance Exchange of Chicago Motor Club v. Westchester Fire Insurance · 6 Wis. 2d 561 - Lontkowski v. Ignarski · 11 Wis. 2d 539 - Zehren v. F. W. Woolworth Co. · 20 Wis. 2d 48 - Home Mutual Insurance v. Insurance Co. of North America · 19 Wis. 2d 373 - Dottai v. Altenbach
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The case comes clearly within the rule that where language is plain and unambiguous, the apparent import of the words must govern, and the rule that where there is no uncertainty as to the meaning of the words used in the contract, and where such uncertainty exists but there is no extrinsic evidence or circumstance bearing on the subject to be considered in determining the meaning attributed to them by the parties when the contract was made, the proper interpretation of the words and construction of the contract are solely for the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Of course, in interpreting and construing the policy, the ultimate objective is to ascertain the true intention of the parties. . . .” (Citing Home Mut. Ins. Co. v. Insurance Co. of North America (1963), 20 Wis. 2d 48, 51 , 121 N. W. 2d 275 ; Inter-Insurance Exchange v. Westchester Fire Ins. Co. (1964), 25 Wis. 2d 100, 104 , 130 N. W. 2d 185 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(w)hile it may be that there are ways to make the premium schedule clearer than it is . . . (t)here is no ambiguity.”
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.