69 Wis. 2d 41 - Moherek v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 102 Wis. 2d 256 - Stafford Trucking, Inc. v. State, Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations (1981), 98 Wis. 2d 624 - City of Milwaukee v. Lindner (1980)
40 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 44 Wis. 2d 45 - Amidzich v. Charter Oak Fire Insurance · 82 Ohio App. 111 - Madden v. Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Ins. · 57 Wis. 2d 669 - McPhee v. American Motorists Insurance · 2 Ill. App. 2d 124 - Wolf v. American Casualty Co. of Reading, Pennsylvania · 6 Cal. App. 3d 965 - Cocking 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person has not ceased 'occupying' a vehicle until he has severed his connection with it - i.e., when he is on his own without any reference to it. If he is still vehicle-oriented, as opposed to highway-oriented, he continues to 'occupy' the vehicle.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“in or upon, entering into or alighting from”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““As this court said in Amidzich v. Charter Oak Fire Ins. Co. (1969), 44 Wis.2d 45, 51 , 170 N.W.2d 813 : “ ‘When a plain meaning of a word of a statute or contract is apparent, we need not resort to either construction or case law to bolster our recognition of that plain meaning.’ ””
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.