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55 Wis. 2d 365 - Fischbach v. Knutson’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
February 1991
most recently cited

24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1991

24 state decisions

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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 Patterson v. Jensen · Cooper v. Zold · 41 Wis. 2d 349 - Estate of Brehmer · 46 Wis. 2d 230 - Estate of Komarr · 50 Wis. 2d 143 - Estate of O'Loughlin

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.

  1. “`Opportunity —the opportunity of the person charged to exercise such influence on the susceptible person to procure the improper favor.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[a]ll of the above circumstances, if unexplained, might tend to establish a disposition . . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “explained why he was excluding his sister and nieces and nephews at the time of execution.”
    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.