80 Wis. 2d 525 - Cords v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 134 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 93 Wis. 2d 433 - Wirth v. Ehly (1980), 102 Wis. 2d 305 - Reiman Associates, Inc. v. R/A Advertising, Inc. (1981)
10 federal appellate · 134 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 Holytz v. City of Milwaukee · Wagner v. International Railway Co. · 72 Wis. 2d 282 - Lister v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System · 70 Wis. 2d 836 - Antoniewicz v. Reszczynski · United States v. English
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an absolute, certain, or imperative duty to either place the signs warning the public of the dangerous conditions existing on the upper trail or to advise his superiors of the condition with a view toward adequate protection of the public responding to the invitation to use this facility.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“the duty to either place warning signs or advise superiors of the conditions is, on the facts here, a duty so clear and so absolute that it falls within the definition of a ministerial duty.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A public officer's duty is ministerial only when it is absolute, certain and imperative, involving merely the performance of a specific task when the law imposes, prescribes and defines the time, mode and occasion for its performance with such certainty that nothing remains for judgment or discretion.”
8 later decisions 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.