60 Wis. 2d 39 - Moran v. Shern’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably 67 Wis. 2d 130 - Garriguenc v. Love (1975), 78 Wis. 2d 94 - Joint School District No. 10 v. Jefferson Education Ass'n (1977)
44 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 58 Wis. 2d 299 - American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Fisher · 39 Wis. 2d 481 - Sipple v. Zimmerman · Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co. v. Tollefsen · Medford Lumber Co. v. Industrial Commission · Milwaukee County v. Badger Chair & Furniture Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The drafter, an attorney, ought to have been capable of adequately drafting the document to reflect a 60/40 percent split of the profits computed after construction of multi-unit family dwellings or after the sale of lots to such building constructors. His inability to do so, if such were indeed the intent, should not be held against the nonlawyer nondrafter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Since there is ambiguity in the agreement, two further rules are brought into operation: (1) Where ambiguity is found extrinsic circumstances may be resorted to in order to ferret out the intent of the parties; and (2) it is well recognized in this jurisdiction that ambiguous agreements are to be construed most strongly against the maker or drafter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]mbiguous agreements are to be construed most strongly against the maker or drafter.”
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.