Willmschen v. Meeker’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2025
10 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 Goldsboro Christian Schools, Inc. v. United States · Boswell, Inc. v. Harkins · ABC Builders, Inc. v. Phillips · State Ex Rel. Scholl v. Anselmi · Amfac Mechanical Supply Co. v. Federer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fundamental principle that underlies the damage assessment that a person injured shall only receive compensation commensurate with his loss, and no more. Rocky Mountain Packing Co. v. Branney, Wyo., 393 P.2d 131, 135 (1964); Hunt v. Thompson, 19 Wyo. 523 , 120 P. 181, 184 (1912).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andersen v. Corbitt“The burden of proving the damages, beyond nominal ones, is upon the party seeking the recovery.”
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.