93 Wis. 2d 613 - Compton v. Shopko Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 110 Wis. 2d 485 - State v. Felton (1983), 183 Wis. 2d 587 - State Ex Rel. Flores v. State (1994)
5 district · 41 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 Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Wingo v. Wedding · Owens v. Press Publishing Co. · Milwaukee Transformer Co. v. Industrial Commission · Adams v. Jersey Central Power & Light Co.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Severance pay, by its very definition, means compensation due an employee, upon the severance of his employment status with the employer. ... A payment of severance pay by the employer and the acceptance of the same by the employee would, in our opinion, be the complete manifestation of the termination of the employment relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“constituting an offer of the stated benefits in exchange for the service of an employee, and upon the employee's completion of the required services, a binding contract is formed under which the employer is obligated to deliver the benefits under the terms of the plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... [Sjeverance pay is a form of compensation for the termination of the employment relation primarily to alleviate the consequent need for economic readjustment. Severance pay is accumulated compensation for past services.”
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.