57 Wis. 2d 92 - Chart v. Dvorak’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 93 Wis. 2d 433 - Wirth v. Ehly (1980), 74 Wis. 2d 526 - Coffey v. City of Milwaukee (1976)
2 federal appellate · 50 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 Weiss v. Fote · Caygill v. Ipsen · Firkus v. Rombalski · Raisanen v. City of Milwaukee · 38 Wis. 2d 676 - Forseth v. Sweet
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce appellants made the legislative or quasi-legislative decision to place the highway warning sign, they had a duty to place it and maintain it without negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`about 750 feet in advance of the hazard or condition warned of....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hether or not to place a stop sign, a warning sign, or a yield sign at the approach to a county trunk highway is a legislative decision that must be undertaken by the county board and not by the courts.”
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.