73 Wis. 2d 524 - Roach v. Keane’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 97 Wis. 2d 260 - Wangen v. Ford Motor Co. (1980), 137 Wis. 2d 397 - Ford Motor Co. v. Lyons (1987)
2 federal appellate · 73 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 · 58 Wis. 2d 193 - Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. v. Fairbanks Morse, Inc. · Savina v. Wisconsin Gas Co. · 58 Wis. 2d 232 - Valiga v. National Food Co. · 68 Wis. 2d 487 - Calero v. Del Chemical Corp.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In general, of course, this court will view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, and affirm if there is any credible evidence on which the jury could have based its decision, particularly where the verdict has the approval of the trial court. Toulon v. Nagle (1975), 67 Wis.2d 233, 242 , 226 N.W.2d 480 . The credibility of witnesses and the weight given to their testimony are matters left to the jury’s judgment, and where more than one inference can be drawn from the evidence, this court must accept the inference drawn by the jury. Valiga v. National Food Co. (1973), 58 Wis.2d 232, 244 , 206 N.W.2d 377 ; Calero v. Del Chemical Corp., supra, 68 Wis.2d at 508.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Full compensation is impossible in the abstract, and different individuals will vary in their estimate of the sum which will be a just pecuniary compensation. Hence, all that the court can do is to see that the jury approximates a sane estimate, or, as it is sometimes said, see that the results attained do not shock the judicial conscience ...."”
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.