Hughes v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012
19 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 LeClert v. LeClert · State Ex Rel. Del Curto v. District Court of Fourth Judicial Dist. · Varney v. Taylor · 43 Wis. 2d 346 - Nichols v. Nichols · Portillo v. Shappie
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ... opinion in the prior appeal constitutes the law of the case. It is binding on the district court, and is to be referred to if there is any doubt or ambiguity regarding the mandate. Our mandate and opinion in the prior appeal set forth the full extent of the jurisdiction of the district court on remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. Garcia
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.