61 Wis. 2d 111 - Heifetz v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 77 Wis. 2d 537 - Garrity v. Rural Mutual Insurance (1977), Wenke Ex Rel. Laufenberg v. Gehl Co. (2004)
2 federal appellate · 85 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 16 Cal. 2d 516 - Bank of California v. Superior Court · Sellman v. Haddock · 20 Wis. 2d 308 - Haase v. Sawicki · Doerr v. Warner · Patitucci v. Gerhardt
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Acceptance of payment from an insurer operates as an assignment of the claim to that extent whether or not the policy contains a subrogation agreement. The plaintiff loses his right to sue for any amount received from his insurer. Thus it would not matter whether the plaintiff in this case had signed a ‘subrogation receipt’ or not. * * * ” Heifetz, 61 Wis.2d at 124 , 211 N.W.2d at 841 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]ach actually own[ing] separately a part of the liability of the tort-feasor.” Although such language might suggest that a subrogee’s claim constitutes a separate cause of action for the purposes of sec. 893.80(3), Stats., the Heifetz court further noted that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to prevent double recovery by the plaintiff....”
2 later decisions 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.