44 Wis. 2d 686 - Plummer v. Leonhard’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1990 · most notably 117 Wis. 2d 605 - Radlein v. Industrial Fire & Casualty Insurance (1984), 111 Wis. 2d 203 - Arnold v. Shawano County Agricultural Society (1983)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Doyle v. Teasdale · 8 Wis. 2d 206 - Rensink v. Wallenfang · Garcia v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. · Ehlers v. Automobile Liability Co. · Hebbe v. Town of Maple Creek
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While great liberality is allowed in construing releases, the operation will be limited to those things within the contemplation of the parties at the time of execution of the release. See Rensink v. Wallenfang (1950), 8 Wis. 2d 206, 213 , 99 N.W.2d 196 . The determination of intent of the parties to a release, and the scope of a release, is a question of fact for the jury. “ ‘The scope of a release, and the intention of the parties that the release shall cover particular claims, are for the jury or other triers of the facts; but where the facts are undisputed, the scope has been held to be for the court.’ 76 C.J.S., Release, p. 721, see. 72.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘1. All former contracts and agreements both written and oral are abrogated and the parties hereto mutually release each other from any claim arising out of any previous contracts and this contract shall supersede and release any and all previous contracts.’ ” 5”
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.