141 Wis. 2d 543 - Van Cleve v. Hemminger’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably 193 Wis. 2d 649 - In Re Custody of HSHK (1995), 166 Wis. 2d 375 - Cardinal v. Leader National Insurance Co. (1992)
29 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 119 Wis. 2d 664 - State v. Wittrock · 120 Wis. 2d 236 - Marriage of Arneson v. Arneson · 73 Wis. 2d 318 - State v. Wachsmuth · 83 Wis. 2d 686 - Puttkammer v. Minth · 50 Wis. 2d 731 - Weichman v. Weichman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to mitigate the trauma and impact of [the] dissolving family relationship.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“the legislature did not intend that the state intervene in the parents' decision regarding their children's best interests when the family unit is intact.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person has standing to seek nonparent visitation under sec. 767.245(1), Stats., when two circumstances are present: first, an "underlying action affecting the family unit has previously been filed"; and second, the child's family is nonintact, so that it may be in the child's best interests to order visitation "to mitigate the trauma and impact of [the] dissolving family relationship."”
3 later decisions 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.