63 Wis. 2d 688 - Britton v. Hoyt’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably 85 Wis. 2d 461 - Stewart v. Wulf (1978), 111 Wis. 2d 228 - Schmid v. Olsen (1983)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 Powers v. Allstate Insurance · Ernst v. Greenwald · 61 Wis. 2d 40 - Gross v. Denow · 47 Wis. 2d 120 - Vincent v. Pabst Brewing Co. · Smith v. Atco 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“jury verdict must be sustained if there is any credible evidence which under any reasonable view of the evidence considered in a light most favorable to the verdict meets the burden of proof applicable to that type of case,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““However, the majority of the court believes that while a trial judge can find as a matter of law the apportionment of causal negligence is against the great weight and clear preponderance of the evidence or that the causal negligence of one actor is greater than that of another, the trial court cannot conclude that exact percentages can be so determined.””
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.