78 Wis. 2d 127 - Schafer v. Wegner’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 227 Wis. 2d 124 - Sawyer v. Midelfort (1999), The Dow Chemical Corporation v. Weevil-Cide Company, Inc. Research Products Company Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company (1990)
22 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 61 Wis. 2d 111 - Heifetz v. Johnson · 20 Wis. 2d 308 - Haase v. Sawicki · 73 Wis. 2d 286 - Johnson v. Heintz · 70 Wis. 2d 1041 - Schneider Fuel & Supply Co. v. West Allis State Bank · 3 Wis. 2d 166 - Schafer v. Schafer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) unreasonable delay, (2) lack of knowledge on the part of the party asserting the defense that the other party would assert the right on which he bases his suit, and (3) prejudice to the party asserting the defense in the event the action is maintained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unlike many states, the running of the statute of limitations extinguishes the [plaintiff's] right as well as the remedy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“independently of any statute of limitations”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. WSBU v. Joel Brennan
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.