Morris v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1990
13 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 Gauger v. Gauger · Horel v. Horel · Brackob v. Brackob · Hoffman v. Hoffman · Hull v. Hull
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . This discretion *. . . must prevail in the absence of some mistake or error respecting the facts upon which it rests which would amount to an abuse of discretion.’ Horel v. Horel (1952), 260 Wis. 336, 340 , 50 N. W. 2d 673; Morris v. Morris (1961), 13 Wis. 2d 92, 93 , 108 N. W. 2d 124 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the respective beneficiaries reach the age of twenty-one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grotsky v. Grotsky“not extend beyond the coming of age of the child”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grotsky v. Grotsky
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.