White v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2020
1 district · 14 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 Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc. · Harding Glass Co. v. Jones · 142 Wis. 2d 425 - Tucker v. Marcus · Thompson v. People · 112 Cal. App. 3d 717 - Sorensen v. Allred
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A complaint charging a defendant with wanton and/or willful disregard of the rights and safety of others is not the equivalent of an allegation of willful or intentional injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We find no basis for concluding that the legislature intended to allow recovery for exemplary damages when the defendant is not liable for actual damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“fifty percent [i]s the point at which the plaintiff could not recover damages he himself has caused”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.