143 Wis. 2d 347 - Stuart v. Stuart’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Delahunty v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance (1996), Hakkila v. Hakkila (1991)
3 federal appellate · 49 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 139 Wis. 2d 778 - Marriage of Richardson v. Richardson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If at all possible, the parties in a divorce should best be able to terminate their relationships [in a single action]. They will have enough problems with the care, custody and support of children without having wounds reopened after the marriage is terminated regarding prior existing claims”
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.