Mader v. Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1993
8 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 14 Wis. 2d 57 - Malco, Inc. v. Midwest Aluminum Sales, Inc. · Syester v. Banta · Bridges v. Alaska Housing Authority · Sunset Acres Motel, Inc. v. Jacobs · Martheny v. Petersen
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Phrased in another manner, which would dictate the same result, an award of such damages is optional or solely in the discretion of the fact finder, Sunset Acres Motel, Inc. v. Jacobs, Mo., 336 S.W.2d 473, 483 ; Bridges v. Alaska Housing Authority, Alaska, 375 P.2d 696, 702-703 , and authorities noted; Matheny v. Petersen, 276 Ala. 478 , 163 So.2d 635, 638 ; Triton Insurance Underwriters, Inc., v. Committee on Chiropractic Welfare, 232 Cal.App.2d 829 , 43 Cal.Rptr. 504 , 505-506, and cases cited. It may be noted that some of the above citations join both these rules or statements in arriving at this result. Therefore, when the trial court as the fact finder does not award punitive damages, an appellate court cannot change such finding or remand it for determination.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cates v. Daniels
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.