Reisenauer v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2026
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Slaubaugh v. Slaubaugh · Erdmann v. Thomas · Moser v. Wilhelm · Mevorah v. Goodman · Van Klootwyk v. Arman
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.
“"[W]hether the answers may fairly be said to represent a logical and probable decision on the relevant issues as submitted. If after a review of the district court's judgment no reconciliation is possible and the inconsistency is such that the special verdict will not support the judgment entered below or any other judgment, then the judgment must be reversed and the case remanded for a new trial." (Citation omitted.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] 'secured person' is exempt from liability to pay damages for 'economic loss' to the extent that an injured person has been paid or will be paid basic no-fault benefits. This means that recovery cannot be had from a 'secured person' in a tort action for any ‘economic loss' which has been recovered or will be recovered in the future from an insurance company. This eliminates the possibility of an injured person recovering basic no-fault benefits for his 'economic loss' from his insurance company and also recovering the same element of 'economic loss’ from the secured person's insurance company under the motor vehicle liability insurance coverage. Thus, a court in order to comply with the spirit of the law should consider in any suit for damages evidence of basic no-fault benefits which have been paid or will be paid in the future to an injured person(s) and reduce any judgment rendered in his favor by that amount.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“perverse and clearly contrary to the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nesseth v. Omlid · Barta v. Hinds
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.