181 Wis. 2d 1007 - Richards v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 206 Wis. 2d 76 - Yauger v. SKIING ENTERPRISES, INC. (1996), Atkins v. Swimwest Family Fitness Center (2005)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 136 Wis. 2d 304 - Green Spring Farms v. Kersten · 111 Wis. 2d 203 - Arnold v. Shawano County Agricultural Society · 108 Wis. 2d 205 - Merten v. Nathan · 117 Wis. 2d 587 - Discount Fabric House of Racine, Inc. v. Wisconsin Telephone Co. · 161 Wis. 2d 502 - Dobratz v. Thomson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'that principle of law under which freedom of contract or private dealings is restricted by law for the good of the community.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that it would absolve [the defendant] from any injury to the [plaintiff] for any reason.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“bargain freely and voluntarily made through a process . . . which has integrity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.