88 Wis. 2d 82 - Ennis v. Ennis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 122 Wis. 2d 536 - State Ex Rel. MLB v. DGH (1985), 141 Wis. 2d 878 - Berg v. Marine Trust Co., N.A. (1987)
25 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 Klapprott v. United States · 40 Wis. 2d 632 - Foregger v. Foregger · In Re Promulgation of a Code of Judicial Ethics · First Wisconsin Mortgage Trust v. First Wisconsin Corp. · 85 Wis. 2d 794 - Monson v. Monson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entitled to insist that any member of that firm protect his confidences and avoid any act which might adversely affect the very interests it had been engaged to protect.” Ennis, 88 Wis. 2d at 100 , 276 N.W.2d at 348 (footnote omitted). [A] lawyer may not represent an adversary of his former client if the subject matter of the two representations is”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) On motion and upon such terms as are just, the court may relieve a party or legal representative from a judgment, order or stipulation for the following reasons: (a) Mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must be liberally construed to allow relief from judgments `whenever such action is appropriate to accomplish justice,'”
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.