130 Wis. 2d 174 - O'BRIEN v. Freiley’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2015
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 70 Wis. 2d 426 - Zweck v. D P Way Corp. · 118 Wis. 2d 587 - In RE MARRIAGE OF RINTELMAN v. Rintelman · 108 Wis. 2d 586 - Sommer v. Sommer · 87 Wis. 2d 22 - Whitwam v. Whitwam · 47 Wis. 2d 565 - Rust v. Rust
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.
“[allowing credit for such payments or expenditures would condone the unilateral modification of court orders and interference with the custodial parent's right to decide how support money should be spent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a discretionary remedy which should have as its aim a result that is just in light of all the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“compulsion of the circumstances or with the express or implied consent of the custodial parent,”
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.