Driscoll v. Driscoll’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2019
12 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 Lien v. Lien · 162 Wis. 2d 96 - In RE MARRIAGE OF NICHOLS v. Nichols · Holforty v. Holforty · State v. Knight · Steffens v. Peterson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the amount and value of the property involved; (2) the intricacy and importance of the litigation; (3) the labor and time involved; (4) the skill required to draft pleadings and try the case; (5) the discovery procedures utilized; (6) the existence of complicated legal problems; (7) the time required; (8) whether briefs were required; and (9) whether an appeal to this [C]ourt is involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the parties agreed at the time of the stipulation that [wife] would not claim her health or the increase in the value of the [stock] as a change of circumstance in order to modify the alimony provisions of the divorce decree. These are the very factors she now claims have changed to the extent that a modification of the alimony award is justified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oman v. Oman“We review a trial court's findings as to contempt under a clearly erroneous standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Taylor
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.