140 Wis. 2d 341 - Wall v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2017
5 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 73 Wis. 2d 150 - Paterson v. Paterson · 78 Wis. 2d 127 - Schafer v. Wegner · Will of Dolph v. Watson · 112 Wis. 2d 285 - In Matter of Estate of Omernik
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that the statute of limitations rule set out in Paterson [that the twenty-year time limit begins to run only after the youngest child reaches majority] is based on the potential for a child support order to be revised upon a showing of changed circumstances anytime before the child attains majority.”
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.