93 Wis. 2d 173 - Olfe v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Wagenmann v. Adams (1987), 197 Wis. 2d 365 - Weiss v. United Fire & Casualty Co. (1995)
6 federal appellate · 67 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 13 Cal. 3d 349 - Smith v. Lewis · Hill v. Okay Const. Co., Inc. · 58 Wis. 2d 569 - Trogun v. Fruchtman · 45 Wis. 2d 147 - Cramer v. Theda Clark Memorial Hospital · Central Cab Co. v. Clarke
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[T]he trial court has such superior advantages for judging of the weight of the testimony and its relevancy and effect that this court should. . .disturb the decision [to deny a motion for directed verdict]. . .only when the mind is clearly convinced that the conclusion of the trial judge is wrong.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“in cases involving conduct not necessarily related to legal expertise where the matters to be proven do not involve 'special knowledge or skill or experience on subjects which are not within the realm of the ordinary experience of [persons], and which require special learning, study or experience.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“special knowledge or skill or experience on subjects which are not within the realm of the ordinary experience of [persons], and which require special learning, study or experience;”
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.