83 Wis. 2d 686 - Puttkammer v. Minth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 137 Wis. 2d 506 - Watts v. Watts (1987), DCB Construction Co. v. Central City Development Co. (1998)
6 federal appellate · 39 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 77 Wis. 2d 454 - S & M Rotogravure Service, Inc. v. Baer · LaChance v. Rigoli · 70 Wis. 2d 997 - Seegers v. Sprague · Utschig v. McClone · 82 Wis. 2d 248 - Gorski v. Gorski
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a benefit conferred upon the defendant by the plaintiff”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“one who did the work, and produced an incidental gain to the owner, by merely performing his contract with another and [who] is now dissatisfied because the return promised under the contract is not forthcoming.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] landlord or lessee [sic] cannot be held liable for materials furnished and labor performed by plaintiff on the leased premises where plaintiff entered into the undertaking looking only to the tenant or lessee for payment in the absence of anything to show that the landlord ordered the work, or authorized anyone to have it done, or ratified the work after it was done, and notwithstanding the landlord ultimately benefits from the work that was done by reason of his ownership of the property. 2”
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.