61 Wis. 2d 585 - Johnson v. Heintz’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2005
24 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 Bielski v. Schulze · 45 Wis. 2d 147 - Cramer v. Theda Clark Memorial Hospital · Affett v. Milwaukee & Suburban Transport Corp. · 51 Wis. 2d 281 - Butzow v. Wausau Memorial Hospital · 41 Wis. 2d 578 - Menge v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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.
““In Butzow v. Wausau Memorial Hospital (1971), 51 Wis. 2d 281, 288, 289 , 187 N. W. 2d 349 , this court pointed out that ‘to establish joint liability the independent torts must concur in point of time to thereafter inflict a single injury.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“negligence made her liable for all the foreseeable consequences that flowed therefrom, either immediately or thereafter, unless that liability was interrupted by an intervening cause or by considerations of proximate cause.”
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.