82 Wis. 2d 376 - Collins v. Gee’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2007
6 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 · 21 Wis. 2d 583 - Dehnart v. Waukesha Brewing Co. · Eleason v. Western Casualty & Surety Co. · 17 Wis. 2d 568 - Lucas v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Arendt v. Kratz
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By that clause, when the widow [of the deceased] died, a cause of action for the wrongful death [of the deceased] vested in the deceased's lineal descendants. It was not her cause of action, but a new one given the lineal descendants by the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lornson v. Siddiqui“[I]t is clearly the law of Wisconsin that a cause of action of a particular beneficiary under the wrongful death statute terminates upon the death of the beneficiary where no judgment has been entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lornson v. Siddiqui
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.