70 Wis. 2d 997 - Seegers v. Sprague’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 695 So. 2d 383 - Commerce v. Equity (1997), 83 Wis. 2d 686 - Puttkammer v. Minth (1978)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 Paschall's, Inc. v. Dozier · Brown v. Thornton · Guldberg v. Greenfield · Volk v. Volk · Ylijarvi v. Brockphaler
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]his court [has] recognized that subcontractors may have a basis for recovery in the quasi-contract action of unjust enrichment. In Don Ganser & Associates, Inc. v. MHI, Inc. (1966), 31 Wis.2d 212, 216, 217 , 142 N.W.2d 781 , the elements of such action were listed as: “ ‘. . . (1) a benefit conferred upon the defendant by the plaintiff, (2) appreciation by the defendant of the fact of such benefit, and (3) acceptance and retention by the defendant of the benefit, under circumstances such that it would be inequitable to retain the benefit without payment of the value thereof.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““On the basis of Superior Plumbing, supra, no unjust enrichment has occurred here. Payments by Sprague to Keller to cover his work and the work of his subcontractors have not left Sprague enriched. The absence of payment to Seegers is due to Keller’s actions.” Seegers v. Sprague, supra at 1005.”
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.