88 Wis. 2d 310 - Coryell v. Conn’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 118 Wis. 2d 299 - Fehring v. Republic Insurance (1984), 100 Wis. 2d 342 - In Matter of Estate of Bilsie (1981)
84 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 Bentzler v. Braun · 54 Wis. 2d 361 - State v. Tew · 75 Wis. 2d 344 - Johnson v. State · 77 Wis. 2d 398 - Roehl v. State · Diemel v. Weirich
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is such a complete failure of proof that the verdict must be based on speculation.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage““Since it is for the jury, and not for the court, to fix the amount of the damages, their verdict in an action for unliquidated damages will not be set aside merely because it is large or because the reviewing court would have awarded less. Full compensation is impossible in the abstract, and different individuals will vary in their estimate of the sum which will be a just pecuniary compensation. Hence, all that the court can do is to see that the jury approximates a sane estimate, or, as it is sometimes said, see that the results attained do not shock the judicial conscience. . . .” Bethke v. Duwe et al., 256 Wis. 378, 385 , 41 N.W.2d 277, 280 (1950). [Quoting 15 Am. Jur. Damages §205 at 621.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where, as here, an injury is subjective and a layman cannot know if it will continue, expert medical testimony is necessary with regard to permanency and future pain and suffering. Diemel v. Weirich, 264 Wis. 265, 268 , 58 N.W.2d 651 (1953). “ ‘. . . Only a medical expert is qualified to express an opinion to a medical certainty, or based on medical probabilities (not mere possibilities), as to whether the pain will continue in the future, and, if so, for how long a period it will so continue . . . .’ Id. at 268 , 58 N.W.2d at 652-653 .””
2 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.