64 Wis. 2d 131 - Silberman v. Roethe’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Gruen Industries, Inc. v. Biller (1979), 78 N.C. App. 334 - Lee v. Paragon Group Contractors, Inc. (1985)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 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 26 Wis. 2d 683 - Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores, Inc. · 39 Wis. 2d 653 - Robertson Transportation Co. v. Public Service Commission · 36 Wis. 2d 388 - Forrer v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. · 51 Wis. 2d 26 - Iowa National Mutual Insurance v. Backens · 16 Wis. 2d 231 - State v. Public Service Commission
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Was the promise one which the prom-isor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance of a definite and substantial character on the part of the promisee? (2) Did the promise induce such action or forbearance? (3) Can injustice be avoided only by enforcement of the promise?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the plaintiff has actually suffered from his action in reliance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance on the part of the promisee or a third person and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise. The remedy granted for breach may be limited as justice requires. [Tent. Draft No. 2.]”
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.